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It is no surprise that many of the arguments offered in defense of abortion are bad. Not only bad because they are in support of, or at least indifferent to, murder, but bad because they ignore well-established facts, and are almost (across the board) inconsistent in what they argue. I can\u2019t imagine any\u00a0good\u00a0<\/em>reason for the murder of thousands of innocent babies, however, they are offered nonetheless….<\/p>\n

Many believe that people are pro-life because their religion or political party tells them to be. While I am unashamedly a follower of Jesus, I don\u2019t believe that you need to be a Christian to hold pro-life values. In fact, there are many\u00a0pro-life atheists<\/a>.\u00a0For the record, however, I think that being a Christian and being indifferent to the death of children is entirely inconsistent and I implore\u00a0anyone<\/em>\u00a0who holds these two competing beliefs to examine whether they\u00a0truly\u00a0<\/em>believe that\u00a0anyone\u00a0<\/em>should have the right to choose to abort their child.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s get into it then. These are three of the worst pro-choice arguments I\u2019ve ever heard.<\/p>\n

1. If a woman doesn\u2019t have the resources to raise a child, she should have the option to abort the child<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another way to phrase this one is to say,\u00a0If a woman who is poor gets pregnant, it might be a good thing for her to have an abortion; otherwise, the baby might grow up in awful circumstances.<\/em>\u00a0We\u2019ll call this the\u00a0argument from poverty.<\/strong>\u00a0There are a few reasons why\u00a0everyone,\u00a0<\/em>pro-choice or not,\u00a0<\/em>should stop saying this. First, this statement implies that poor people have no value. It claims that a mother may have the right to an abortion because it would be better for the child to not be born than to live in poverty. If it\u2019s better for a person to be dead than poor, then why should\u00a0anyone\u00a0<\/em>have children if they\u2019re \u201cpoor\u201d? We wouldn\u2019t argue that the life of\u00a0any\u00a0\u201cpoor\u201d person is of any less value than those of us that aren\u2019t impoverished, yet this is exactly what the argument from poverty implies. If you use poverty as a reason for an abortion, then you are assuming that the life of a child living in poverty isn\u2019t as valuable as the life of a child living affluently. Nobody says this explicitly, but it is most certainly implied.<\/p>\n

Imagine a woman is pregnant and\u00a0decides\u00a0<\/i>to have the child. After she gives birth she takes the baby home only to find out that she\u2019s lost her job and doesn\u2019t have enough to continue to pay rent. Her outlook is bleak. She has no source of income and the father of her newborn died 4 months prior. Given the argument from poverty, she should have the option to kill her newborn. \u00a0Would\u00a0anyone\u00a0<\/i>advise her to \u201cterminate\u201d her newborn? Would anyone say that it\u2019s up to her to decide whether or not it\u2019s merciful to end her baby\u2019s life?… Would celebrities come out in favor of her decision to kill her child? Would we, as a nation, say that it\u2019s none of our business?…\u00a0Of course not, that would be insane! While there are some insane people that truly think this way, like\u00a0Planned Parenthood officials<\/a>, most are not. The vast majority of the population would call it murder. The only difference between this baby and the ones that are aborted is their geographical location. One is inside the womb; one is not.<\/p>\n

We need to rid ourselves of this type of thought. It is dangerous.<\/p>\n

That brings us to the next terrible argument for abortion.<\/p>\n

2. It\u2019s the woman\u2019s body, so it\u2019s her choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wish I could say that people don\u2019t still say this, however,\u00a0it is the\u00a0mantra\u00a0<\/em>of the pro-choice movement. Pro-choicers say this so often, it would appear that if anyone could show the statement to be patently false, the whole movement would cease to exist. Unfortunately, even\u00a0if\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>abortion proponents admitted that this statement was false, I don\u2019t think it would matter. Pessimism aside, we still need to show the absurdity of this claim. We\u2019ll call this the\u00a0argument from biology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

First, without even discussing abortion, we can dismiss this claim outright. Just because it\u2019s \u201cher body\u201d doesn\u2019t mean she can do what she wants with it. In public, she has to\u00a0wear clothing, because it\u2019s illegal to be nude in public. If arrested for public indecency, I\u2019m guessing the \u201cIt\u2019s my body I can do what I want with it,\u201d defense won\u2019t work. Similarly, if caught shooting up heroin, it\u2019d be safe to assume the \u201cIt\u2019s my body\u201d defense won\u2019t work in this case either. However, for the sake of the argument, let\u2019s allow the principle to stand (even though it obviously doesn\u2019t and should, therefore, end this conversation).<\/p>\n

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Even\u00a0if<\/em>, as we are permitting for this discussion, it is true that a person can do whatever she\u2019d like with her own body, that \u201ctruth\u201d doesn\u2019t apply to the abortion conversation. At no point, from conception to birth, is the baby the same\u00a0thing\u00a0<\/em>as the woman\u2019s body.\u00a0Science tells us<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0from the moment<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0sperm fertilizes the egg, the embryo (child) contains ALL of its genetic information\u00a0including\u00a0<\/em>gender. This means the child has her own DNA, separate and distinct from her mother\u2019s body. She may be related to her mother, but she is\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>her mother. During some abortions, the baby\u2019s limbs\u00a0—\u00a0not the mother’s — are ripped from her body; the baby\u2019s skull\u00a0—\u00a0not the mother’s — is crushed; and\u00a0the baby feels a completely separate and distinct set of pain from the mother.<\/a>\u00a0(The fact that the baby feels pain when killed should be obvious and enough to settle this debate, but here we are.)<\/p>\n

Some might argue that the \u201cfetus\u201d inside the womb is not \u201cviable,\u201d but left alone, the woman\u2019s baby in our hypothetical scenario would also die. If she didn\u2019t feed the baby, the baby would die. Both the baby in the womb and the baby outside the womb and my 18-month-old daughter\u00a0need\u00a0<\/i>the care of another human being to survive. While the viability argument attempts to show that the baby could not survive outside the womb\u00a0at all,\u00a0<\/em>that has no bearing on whether or not the baby is human and that it has the right to life. It has no bearing on the fact that if the baby were able to stay safely inside her mother\u2019s womb, she would later be born and get to experience life out here like the rest of us. Instead, some\u00a0make this absurd viability argument and cut any chance these little babies ever have of experiencing life. It doesn\u2019t hold. Especially considering\u00a0the number of premature babies that could be aborted according to the \u201cviability argument.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

When we say things like, \u201cIt\u2019s her body, she should be able to do what she wants with it,\u201d we imply that a woman deciding to have an abortion is akin to a woman deciding to get a tattoo, a haircut, or even plastic surgery. However, in all of the instances where a woman (any person) is\u00a0definitely\u00a0<\/em>free to do what she wants with her body,\u00a0none\u00a0<\/em>of them affect the life of another human being.<\/p>\n

Given that on its face, the argument from biology doesn\u2019t apply to abortion, and that the baby is not\u00a0<\/em>(according to biology)\u00a0the mother\u2019s body, but is\u00a0in\u00a0<\/em>the mother\u2019s body, we should reject this argument completely.<\/p>\n

This leads me to the last pro-abortion argument that I\u2019d like to argue against here.<\/p>\n

3. You\u2019re a man, so you don\u2019t have the right to comment on women\u2019s issues<\/strong><\/p>\n

This argument\u00a0takes the cake for not only how nonsensical it is, but also for its inconsistency and hypocrisy. We\u2019ll call this argument the\u00a0argument from gender.\u00a0<\/strong>The fact that I am a man should have\u00a0no\u00a0<\/strong>bearing on whether or not the facts I\u2019ve presented are true. Plenty of men, including President Obama, and many male celebrities, support abortion and are\u00a0lauded for it<\/a>\u00a0by pro-choice organizations. They are held up as heroes\u00a0and are adored by the pro-abortion crowd. However, if you\u2019re a man that disagrees with killing children, what you have to say doesn\u2019t matter simply\u00a0because\u00a0<\/em>you\u2019re a man.<\/p>\n

This is so inconsistent; it\u2019s hard to believe that anyone argues this way. Not only that, it is entirely hypocritical. Pro-choicers welcome and celebrate men who agree with them and use their arguments to support the pro-choice agenda but discount a pro-life argument from a man simply because he is a man. As a man, I apparently have this underlying agenda in controlling what women do with their bodies. I can tell you; honestly, I could not care less what women do with their bodies\u2026as long as they aren\u2019t killing children.<\/p>\n

If it were true that because I am a man my facts are invalidated with regards to abortion, then what about the large numbers of women who are pro-life; women like Lila Rose, who is the President of\u00a0Live Action<\/a>….<\/p>\n

We have to look past trite and shallow sayings and look deeper. We are responsible for the genocide of our sons and daughters. As a nation, a free nation, we allow the deaths of over\u00a0950,000 babies every year<\/a>….\u00a0We have the power to combat the atrocious act of abortion by not only giving money to pro-life causes; not only by voting for pro-life laws and legislation; but also by engaging in the conversation.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This blog was originally printed at Andy Rectenwald’s blog<\/a> on August 21, 2016 and is reprinted here with permission. Some portions of the blog have received minor edits.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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