{"id":41030,"date":"2013-09-25T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=41030"},"modified":"2013-09-25T11:59:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:59:15","slug":"fallacious-pro-choice-argument-day-consent-vs-responsibility-bait-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fallacious-pro-choice-argument-day-consent-vs-responsibility-bait-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallacious pro-choice argument of the day: the consent vs. responsibility bait-and-switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39986\" style=\"margin-left: 15px;\" alt=\"Pinterest abortion image\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-28-at-5.07.15-PM-300x242.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-28-at-5.07.15-PM-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-28-at-5.07.15-PM.png 729w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>An essential component to any effective con is projecting confidence in what you\u2019re selling. Confidence is contagious, making things seem credible and in doing so playing to the hearer\u2019s desire to not seem stupid, which can often drive people to go along with all sorts of things they would never think of in a vacuum. Another is indignation &#8211; if you seem genuinely angry, it intuitively follows that whatever\u2019s motivating that anger must be sincere.<\/p>\n<p>This one-two punch serves pro-aborts well in their offspring disposal advocacy, giving dozens of nonsensical talking points an intimidating air of unearned gravity, such as the staggeringly thoughtless \u201c<a href=\"\/news\/does-consent-to-sex-mean-consent-to-pregnancy\/\">consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy<\/a>.\u201d <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A sibling of <a href=\"\/news\/the-false-strength-of-the-bodily-autonomy-argument-for-abortion\/\">bodily autonomy absolutism<\/a>, the consent argument is basically that it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you willingly perform an action with full knowledge that you are risking the creation of a new human being who will need nine months within your body to develop, because unless you expressly desire that outcome, and intend it while having sex, you hold no responsibility whatsoever for the welfare of the life you created.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clearly nonsense to say someone owes absolutely <em>nothing<\/em> to someone he or she <em>created<\/em>, whose very existence is a <em>direct result<\/em> of that someone\u2019s willful, knowing actions. But this exercise in pure narcissism continues to plague abortion arguments nonetheless, with pro-aborts boldly asserting it as if it\u2019s the most obvious thing in the world, ready to throw a tantrum if their \u201clogic\u201d isn&#8217;t dutifully accepted.<\/p>\n<p>It also helps that there\u2019s a semi-clever little bait-and-switch embedded in the talking point: pairing <em>consent<\/em> to sex with <em>consent<\/em> to pregnancy. It\u2019s true enough that that having sex doesn&#8217;t automatically mean you <em>want<\/em> whatever children result, and that desire is often used interchangeably with the idea of consent.<\/p>\n<p>All right, so you don\u2019t \u201cconsent\u201d to pregnancy. But that doesn&#8217;t change anything, since pro-lifers shouldn&#8217;t concede that \u201cconsent\u201d to pregnancy is what we\u2019re talking about anyway. What really matters is <em>responsibility<\/em>. Just because you didn&#8217;t <em>consent<\/em> to a particular outcome doesn&#8217;t mean you aren&#8217;t <em>responsible<\/em> for it.<\/p>\n<p>If I blow through every red light I see, I\u2019m not <em>desiring<\/em> a twelve-car pileup. It\u2019s not what I <em>intend<\/em> to happen at all; I\u2019m just trying to get to work on time. But that doesn&#8217;t mean my actions didn&#8217;t cause wreckage and bloodshed. It\u2019s still my fault. I\u2019m still <em>responsible<\/em>. Foot-stomping about how \u201cI never <em>consented<\/em> to these accidents\u201d won\u2019t do me a lick of good with the police, the courts, or pretty much anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the pro-abortion mind, that exact logic is considered perfectly adequate to divest people of any and all responsibility for whatever human life they may bring into existence. It would be funny if the fallout weren&#8217;t so lethal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential component to any effective con is projecting confidence in what you\u2019re selling. Confidence is contagious, making things seem credible and in doing so playing to the hearer\u2019s desire to not seem stupid, which can often drive people to go along with all sorts of things they would never think of in a vacuum. 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