A new response to a common pro-legalized abortion sound bite

I think most regulars here are familiar with how to respond to the common Pro-lifers don’t care about kids after they are born canard put forth by pro-legalized abortionists.  I’ve typically used a two part approach, as follows:
1. You don’t have to take ownership of a situation to be able to protest a moral evil.
2. Even so, [...]

A “blogment” conversation about abortion

A recent commenter made so many common pro-abortion claims that I thought I’d post my reply as a “blogment” (a comment turned into a blog post).  Sadly, these are common arguments, but they are easy to respond to if you do some preparation. 
He had claimed elsewhere, among other things, that genocide, the Holocaust and starvation [...]

Common pro-legalized abortion arguments

A recent commenter raised several pro-legalized-abortion arguments so I thought I’d turn it into a post.
First, a foundation that I’ll refer to again and again: The humanity of the unborn is a scientific fact, and to oppose it is to be anti-science. Just check out any secular embryology textbook. It is a factual counter to [...]

I’m too pro-science to be pro-choice

 <=== The shirt says, “Now that I’m safe I’m pro-choice” 
One of my favorite techniques to use when debating pro-choicers is to highlight how pro-life views are in concert with science and how their views are not.  It is easy to demonstrate the scientific fact that life begins at conception.  They may try to argue that but [...]

If you want to get pro-choicers wound up . . .

. . . just bring up gender-selection abortions.  I recommend doing this right about the time that they accuse you of being anti-women. 
Just turn the tables and ask them how they feel about that type of abortion.  They’ll typically go in to squirm or ballistic mode, because they know that any answer will expose their [...]

Pro-abortion myths that just won’t die

These claims came from a post at another blog.
What of the deaths that occur when abortion is illegal?
If some murderers die while committing crimes do we make those crimes legal?  What of the deaths of the unborn that always die with “successful” abortions?
Seems abortions have been going on forever.
So have other forms of murder (see [...]

Classic pro-legalized abortion reasoning

Which is to say, classically flawed.  A commenter on the From one collection of cells to another post made some comments that I thought were worthy to be addressed in a separate post.  I find them to be thoroughly flawed, but they contained many arguments that pro-legalized abortion folks find persuasive.  Here is how I [...]

The “safe, legal and rare” myth

This is a rerun from 2007, back for the political season.  Also see the timely post at Stand to Reason’s blog about Biden’s Blunder.  It should be must reading for all the people who insist that they are personally opposed to abortions but don’t want the government to do anything about them.
It is a common [...]

Pro-lifers don’t care about kids after they are born?

One of the most common sound bites / jokes that pro-choicers make about pro-lifers is that we are infatuated with the fetus but don’t care about kids after they are born.   The message is that if we don’t adopt all unwanted children then we have no right to complain about abortion.  It is an important sound bite to [...]

Morally complex vs. psychologically complex

Issues such as abortion and homosexual behavior can be very complex psychologically while being simple from a moral standpoint. It helps to distinguish between the two in order to have a more productive conversation.
For example, the circumstances surrounding an abortion decision are almost always psychologically complex. Women/girls get pressured from their parents and/or boyfriends/husbands and [...]

Abortion and capital punishment

I was once asked why I am pro-life but not anti-capital punishment (I am in favor of capital punishment, but only if it is applied in a Biblical model). The pro-life / pro-capital punishment view is often ridiculed in the media and entertainment, and I have heard many Christians mock it as well.
The main reason [...]

What I’d really, really like to ask the Democratic candidates

I would gladly pay $$$ to be able to ask this.
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Hi Hillary, Barack and John,
If a genetic predisposition to homosexuality were proved and could be identified in utero, would you favor a ban on abortions to protect the unborn in this category?
Follow up questions:
If yes, then why not extend these protections to the unborn who are being [...]

Privacy

Clinton, Obama and Edwards would all demand pro-abortion Supreme Court justices (But there is no litmus test, of course).
Their rationale was the typical political weasel-word privacy. Privacy to do what, pray tell?  Have an abortion, of course. 
Does a woman have a right to kill her toddler in the privacy of her own bedroom after consulting privately with her [...]

Addressing a mocker of pro-lifers

Just for grins I thought I’d parse a pro-legalized abortion piece by a theological liberal.  He mocks the unborn and those who grieve over their deaths.  It was called Dead Baby Jokes.  Classy.
It is basically a gigantic irrational argument, as in, “You don’t care about ____ like he does, and ____ is more important than protecting [...]

Choice

A classic pro-choice sound bite is that it is paternalistic to assume that women are incapable of making their own choices, so abortions should be legal.
That message fails like the rest of pro-choice logic because it assumes what it should be proving: That abortion doesn’t kill another human being.
Should a woman have the “choice” to kill [...]

Where do you draw the line?

Regarding abortion, we all have to draw a line somewhere and defend why on one side it is a Constitutional right (ha) to kill “it” and on the other side it is the murder of an innocent human being. 
The burden of proof is on the one who draws the line anywhere to the right of [...]