You may have missed a good one. A "fetus" is not "my body". There is not a single cell in the fetus that has the woman's DNA. From the moment of conception, the single cell zygote is a new and unique DNA with every piece of instruction to form a body through birth and when to form the 12 year molars.
This is excellent and unassailably logical. Expanding on your 5th point, because of the Ten Commandments, we'd have to repeal every law against murder, stealing, perjury and adultery (generally not a crime, of course, but can be consequential in a divorce case). Just because churches or religious individuals are vocal about abortion on religious/moral grounds doesn't make it only a religious belief or argument. Religious beliefs or lack thereof don't negate your premises in #3 any more than a uterus or lack thereof does.
This is great. I particularly like #1. I think much of the pro-abortion argument recently (in our pain and responsibility adverse society) has centered around avoiding being stuck with the hardship of having a kid. We should kill the fetus now so the parents and kid are spared pain in the future after the kid is born. But in essence they’re saying because I am forbidden from committing illegal acts later I should be allowed to commit immoral acts now. It’s precisely because there’s a high legal burden placed on mothers that pro-advocates try to couch abortion as a ‘freedom pill,’ a quick fix. This line of reasoning is actually quite a departure from Roe which saw the burden in being pregnant in a society that might look negatively on say, unwed pregnancy. It was a woman’s right to privacy about her sexual activity that was defended. But now that our culture has moved passed those mores the argument has become that abortion is good because it helps women avoid the joys and responsibilities of motherhood.
evil greedy kill4cash sociopath abortionists coercing vulnerable Mothers into crushing the skulls of their innocent defenceless harmless Children alive in the womb is NOT “women’s rights”.......
To truly be "Pro-Life", we need to be focused on giving women real choices.
One of the top arguments for abortion is that women have no other realistic choice. The irony is palpable, that such an argument is used to support being "Pro-Choice".
If we are successful in stopping this ancient evil, we are going to need solutions. That means answering some hard questions, and having a PLAN.
What is missing from this amazing article is abortion used for birth control and just an aside late term or birth and then killed it is murder as far as I'm concerned
These are great. I never understood how some people will scream keep abortions legal and then say we need more workers to do the jobs that we don't want to do so let's have open borders. I know a great way to get about half a million people in the US per year and still keep our borders closed and secure.. Stop having abortions.
The “poverty” is the USA is known as financial independence in other parts of the world. Open your eyes. I’ve carried food boxes to cars that were nicer and newer than my own car. Our poor are given homes, food, and education. We have “poor” people that are obese. Have you ever seen poor obese people in India, Africa, or China? I know people on federal assistance that smoke, chew snuff, drink and gamble at casinos with their income.
I come from a family of ten children. We were “poor”. We were the talk of the neighborhood with ten dirty Catholic kids running around. “ Is your mom pregnant again?” was a question I happily answered because I didn’t see the snideness behind it. Now my brothers and sisters are CEOs, CFOs, lawyers, and sanitation workers. We are all healthy, happy, productive, and love each other.
Young people just cannot appreciate the nature of time. My mother was not happy being pregnant with her ninth child, and almost devastated with her tenth. Those two children became the joy and light of my parents lives, and almost the hub of our family as we all revolved around the “ babies” lives. The youngest four children took care of my father through years of a debilitating disease while motivating him to live to see them graduate college.
Young people just can’t fathom how quickly life changes. My parents struggled to care for us fifty years ago, but my mother is reaping the rewards now. She would have been in an assisted living home paying thousands of dollars a month for the past 8 years if she didn’t have her two youngest to care for her. In retrospect, my mother could not have afforded to NOT have ten children to care for her. She is in our homes with her grandchildren and children to lovingly provide for her.
We hear how many boomers will need care and assistance and I can only imagine the cost to the tax payers. Imagine if families took my parents’ example of sacrifice for their children, and were repaid from one generation to the next. Sacrificial love is the key to life, not economic comfort.
Hate the argument that men shouldn't have a say, these are their babies too. Also "my body, my choice" is inaccurate. Unless women spontaneously grow extra limbs, heart, and brain, what's growing inside them is NOT their body.
There are many reasons for abortion, and none of you seem to understand that, or even attempt to cover the myriad of scenarios that require a SAFE abortion. And I’ll say it again, if you insist an embryo is an actual person, then afford all rights and privileges, including child support at conception. And while you are so concerned for an unborn child, what about all of the suffering children outside of the womb? Don’t care about them, do you. And the argument “better poor than dead” is absolutely ignorant. What a selfish, entitled thing to say. You clearly have no idea about life outside your own bubble. Stop trying to govern women’s reproductive rights.
Good responses. Especially the "my body" argument. Visited a young mother of a 9 month old who was thrashed from lack of sleep due to the demands of that little one needing milk and attention.
Also like the "error on life" argument. Handling firearms, there is a natural instinct for most to exercise extreme care in storage and use.
First time reader here. Highly impressed with the sound, articulate logic in this article. It should be shared with no end in sight.
You may have missed a good one. A "fetus" is not "my body". There is not a single cell in the fetus that has the woman's DNA. From the moment of conception, the single cell zygote is a new and unique DNA with every piece of instruction to form a body through birth and when to form the 12 year molars.
Love all of this. Thank you for the LOGIC the world needs some of this
This is excellent and unassailably logical. Expanding on your 5th point, because of the Ten Commandments, we'd have to repeal every law against murder, stealing, perjury and adultery (generally not a crime, of course, but can be consequential in a divorce case). Just because churches or religious individuals are vocal about abortion on religious/moral grounds doesn't make it only a religious belief or argument. Religious beliefs or lack thereof don't negate your premises in #3 any more than a uterus or lack thereof does.
This is great. I particularly like #1. I think much of the pro-abortion argument recently (in our pain and responsibility adverse society) has centered around avoiding being stuck with the hardship of having a kid. We should kill the fetus now so the parents and kid are spared pain in the future after the kid is born. But in essence they’re saying because I am forbidden from committing illegal acts later I should be allowed to commit immoral acts now. It’s precisely because there’s a high legal burden placed on mothers that pro-advocates try to couch abortion as a ‘freedom pill,’ a quick fix. This line of reasoning is actually quite a departure from Roe which saw the burden in being pregnant in a society that might look negatively on say, unwed pregnancy. It was a woman’s right to privacy about her sexual activity that was defended. But now that our culture has moved passed those mores the argument has become that abortion is good because it helps women avoid the joys and responsibilities of motherhood.
evil greedy kill4cash sociopath abortionists coercing vulnerable Mothers into crushing the skulls of their innocent defenceless harmless Children alive in the womb is NOT “women’s rights”.......
To truly be "Pro-Life", we need to be focused on giving women real choices.
One of the top arguments for abortion is that women have no other realistic choice. The irony is palpable, that such an argument is used to support being "Pro-Choice".
If we are successful in stopping this ancient evil, we are going to need solutions. That means answering some hard questions, and having a PLAN.
What is missing from this amazing article is abortion used for birth control and just an aside late term or birth and then killed it is murder as far as I'm concerned
Can I have permission to reprint this in my pro-life column for our church's monthly newsletter?
Can you all say "birth control"? I would rather fund that than the violent dismemberment of the unprotected unborn.
If women have a right to "bodily autonomy" don't men as well? Therefore o one can be compelled to get a mandated vaccination..
These are great. I never understood how some people will scream keep abortions legal and then say we need more workers to do the jobs that we don't want to do so let's have open borders. I know a great way to get about half a million people in the US per year and still keep our borders closed and secure.. Stop having abortions.
The “poverty” is the USA is known as financial independence in other parts of the world. Open your eyes. I’ve carried food boxes to cars that were nicer and newer than my own car. Our poor are given homes, food, and education. We have “poor” people that are obese. Have you ever seen poor obese people in India, Africa, or China? I know people on federal assistance that smoke, chew snuff, drink and gamble at casinos with their income.
I come from a family of ten children. We were “poor”. We were the talk of the neighborhood with ten dirty Catholic kids running around. “ Is your mom pregnant again?” was a question I happily answered because I didn’t see the snideness behind it. Now my brothers and sisters are CEOs, CFOs, lawyers, and sanitation workers. We are all healthy, happy, productive, and love each other.
Young people just cannot appreciate the nature of time. My mother was not happy being pregnant with her ninth child, and almost devastated with her tenth. Those two children became the joy and light of my parents lives, and almost the hub of our family as we all revolved around the “ babies” lives. The youngest four children took care of my father through years of a debilitating disease while motivating him to live to see them graduate college.
Young people just can’t fathom how quickly life changes. My parents struggled to care for us fifty years ago, but my mother is reaping the rewards now. She would have been in an assisted living home paying thousands of dollars a month for the past 8 years if she didn’t have her two youngest to care for her. In retrospect, my mother could not have afforded to NOT have ten children to care for her. She is in our homes with her grandchildren and children to lovingly provide for her.
We hear how many boomers will need care and assistance and I can only imagine the cost to the tax payers. Imagine if families took my parents’ example of sacrifice for their children, and were repaid from one generation to the next. Sacrificial love is the key to life, not economic comfort.
Hate the argument that men shouldn't have a say, these are their babies too. Also "my body, my choice" is inaccurate. Unless women spontaneously grow extra limbs, heart, and brain, what's growing inside them is NOT their body.
There are many reasons for abortion, and none of you seem to understand that, or even attempt to cover the myriad of scenarios that require a SAFE abortion. And I’ll say it again, if you insist an embryo is an actual person, then afford all rights and privileges, including child support at conception. And while you are so concerned for an unborn child, what about all of the suffering children outside of the womb? Don’t care about them, do you. And the argument “better poor than dead” is absolutely ignorant. What a selfish, entitled thing to say. You clearly have no idea about life outside your own bubble. Stop trying to govern women’s reproductive rights.
Good responses. Especially the "my body" argument. Visited a young mother of a 9 month old who was thrashed from lack of sleep due to the demands of that little one needing milk and attention.
Also like the "error on life" argument. Handling firearms, there is a natural instinct for most to exercise extreme care in storage and use.
Bueno Seth!