{"id":167391,"date":"2017-06-13T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=167391"},"modified":"2017-06-14T01:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T05:32:21","slug":"pro-abortion-opinion-piece-advances-pro-life-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-opinion-piece-advances-pro-life-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion opinion piece unintentionally advances pro-life arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an opinion piece<\/a> published Thursday by Marie Claire, pro-abortion writer Jessica Valenti criticized Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi\u00a0for not being pro-abortion enough, while complaining about pro-life Democrat John Bel Edwards’ common sense argument that Democrats would be more successful in the South if they were more open to running pro-life candidates.\u00a0While there are certainly some interesting claims made in the piece, the most striking part is the way two\u00a0of\u00a0Valenti’s arguments could just as easily serve as pro-life<\/em> arguments.<\/p>\n

1. Human<\/strong><\/p>\n

When lamenting the need to even argue the topic of abortion as a “right,” Valenti asks, “But why do we still have to go to such great lengths? Making these arguments feels like begging for scraps. It’s humiliating to be put in the position of having to convince someone of your humanity.”<\/p>\n

Very interesting. In an ironic sense, Valenti is absolutely correct. Science<\/a>\u00a0clearly tells us that the preborn baby<\/a> is a human individual. While no one is contending that the preborn baby is yet able to comprehend humiliation, that’s not a scientific qualification for membership in the human species. The science is on the pro-life side. Why are we still arguing about this?<\/p>\n