Reply #74: I've Heard [View All]

[Mark D.]

Given hypotheticals in debates over Abortion, anti-choicers say it there was even a slim chance the woman would survive (say, 90% chance of death) they'd opt to forgo abortion. Since the aborted foetus would have a '100% chance of death'. If you want to win the debate on the fundamental grounds, here are suggestions. Make note, try them!

1) Ask them how often Jesus spoke against abortion. He didn't. Not once. There WERE herbal-induced miscarriages in His day. This also works for birth control and gays, two other obsessions of theirs, since He never mentioned those either, even though there were primitive forms of the first one used, and the latter did exist, albeit very hidden from sight.

2) Ask them this. This one is GREAT! If MY solution, better education, better availability of birth control, etc., reduced unplanned pregnancies (it's the top cause of abortion) reduced the abortion rate 40%, and YOUR solution, illegalization of choice, no sex ed, very limited birth control, abstinence-only, reduced it only 20%. Which would you pick?

3) Watch them try to explain that away. How true 'Christians' focus on what Jesus never talked about, and rally against very liberal things he focused on. On Abortion, if they didn't pick 'their solution' they'd be going against their 'party line'. But if they do pick it, they would reduce abortion far less than if they had picked 'my (legal) solution' instead.

This could cause them to self destruct as they are unable to chose. Reduce abortion more, but don't illegalize it. It's not logical. Remember that scene in Star Trek where Kirk tells the android Norman that everything Harry Mudd says is a lie, and Mudd says he's lying? Exactly! Five minutes in on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6WSIXxTx4I