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\"\"<\/a>For every pro-life argument, a pro-choicer stands ready to mock it without trying to understand it. In response to my Nov. 12 post<\/a> about why the law takes certain \u201crights to choose\u201d out of individuals\u2019 hands, our old friend<\/a> Robin Marty writes<\/a> that I oppose abortion because I think \u201cwomen can\u2019t be trusted\u201d and \u201cbelieve women are incapable of making \u2018the right\u2019 decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be fair, she quotes enough of my post to get my basic point across – but apparently not enough for her to digest it. That\u2019s what makes her response so oddly lacking – she doesn\u2019t try to explain why I\u2019m wrong; she just lets her paraphrases about me distrusting women hang there, as if expecting my knuckle-dragging wrongness to rise self-evident from the page.<\/p>\n

This is because abortionism, like all subspecies of liberalism, doesn\u2019t really believe in using reason to discern truth or derive positions; adherents to this ideology decide what they want first, then manipulate whatever emotions they can to help them get it. You don\u2019t trust women<\/em> is merely one of an arsenal of slogans and buzzwords meant to elicit a Pavlovian response in one\u2019s followers – in this case, they are meant to instinctively recoil in disgust at my alleged disdain for the fairer sex.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Marty, ten seconds\u2019 worth of non-brainwashed thought about my words – or, in this case, just reading them – would have sufficed to see my real argument: I think \u201cwomen can\u2019t be trusted\u201d with the power to abort only because I don\u2019t think anyone<\/em> can be trusted with the power to unilaterally decide whether someone else dies, male or<\/em> female. Indeed, if the several dozen words I spent explaining my position weren\u2019t enough to convey that to Marty, my use of words like \u201cmen,\u201d \u201cpeople,\u201d \u201cour,\u201d \u201chuman,\u201d and \u201cwe\u201d should have taken her the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

But because genuinely understanding and accurately depicting one\u2019s opponents fall so low on pro-aborts\u2019 priority list, Marty instead settles for the implied sexism clich\u00e9, and she makes almost no effort to address the various aspects of my argument – not human nature, not the rights of the unborn (or, indeed, what the unborn even really are), and not the hypocrisy of liberals. The closest she comes to an actual response is this:<\/p>\n

Of course, we do have an independent, impartial authority\u2014the courts. At least, we do so far. And that independent, impartial authority ruled that a woman’s right to bodily autonomy supersedes a fertilized egg’s right to be born if the woman doesn’t wish to carry it to term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, instead of correcting my fallacies, Marty has introduced a whopper of her own. The true \u201cindependent, impartial authority\u201d is the Constitution and the principles it enshrines; the courts settle these questions only to the extent that their rulings faithfully reflect that Constitution and uphold those principles. Roe v. Wade<\/em> fails that test spectacularly. (And if you don\u2019t believe me, Robin, don\u2019t take Live Action’s<\/a> word for it – take your own side’s legal experts<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Robin Marty set out to undermine my argument, but by providing such a great example of the lengths to which abortion apologists will stretch language and reason to keep unborn babies killable, it seems to me she\u2019s only strengthened it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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