CONCEPTION: WHEN LIFE BEGINS.

Posted in Uncategorized by Baba - Aug 28, 2017

In the rare case where you find yourself engaged in a civil, unheated discussion of the rights of the unborn, you should be ready to encounter one, or more, of these tenuous arguments from a defender of abortion-on-demand:

  1. Equal right to break the law. The warped thinking here is that abortion restrictions will drive women back to the back-alley butcher. If abortion is restricted only the wealthy will be able to afford a clean, healthy (for the mother), illegal procedure. Abortion-on-demand allows equal rights to all women.
  2. Anti abortion people only care about the unborn. This assertion claims that anyone who opposes abortion-on-demand simply does not care about the problems the pregnancy poses for the mother-to-be.
  3. Men (biological males) cannot become pregnant. Since they cannot personally experience the process they should not hold, or express, an opinion.
  4. Pregnancy can prevent having equal rights with non-pregnant people. The gist of this argument is that being pregnant could result in an unequal burden of hardship, so therefor, the mother-to-be has a right to avoid being forced into being a second-class person.
  5. Anti-abortion sentiments are religion driven. This fallacy says those who have no religious convictions cannot be opposed to abortion-on-demand.
  6.  On-demand abortion is the only reliable safeguard against back-alley butchers. Comparison of the statistics from before and after Roe v. Wade shows this point is not substantiated.
  7. The aborted child would likely face lifelong poverty and deprivation. This argues that any unborn child who does not have guaranteed wealth and privilege could, and should (?), be killed.
  8. The unborn child is a part of the mother’s body. It is her right alone to decide the fate of her child. Actually the placenta performs an extraordinary function by making the developing baby a completely separate biological entity from the mother. Mom has custody of the yet to be born child, but it is its own person.
  9. If a baby could not survive outside the mother’s uterus then it is ok to kill it. This argument puts anyone who needs external help to survive could be put to death, for example, a young accident victim in the ICU, or a person on dialysis.
  10. An unborn baby is unaware of its future prospects. The idea here is that the deceased cannot lose something they were unaware of having, so abortion is not depriving anyone of anything.

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