Associate Justice PiT
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« on: January 25, 2017, 07:23:49 PM » |
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The pro-life argument is basically that the unborn constitute human life and merit protection under the law as such. Just as killing a person who is born is murder, so would killing an unborn human. If you believe that human beings are endowed with immortal souls, this becomes a very salient point.
Speaking from my pro-choice perspective, I hate what has become the prevailing feminist characterization of the issue, where it's solely about the rights of women and being pro-life is being anti-woman. If you believe that abortion constitutes the murder of an ensouled human being, then women's rights aren't even part of the equation. It refuses to acknowledge an opposing argument that is going to resonate with a substantial segment of the population.
Now you may be comfortable with ignoring these people because they are not going to be persuaded to support abortion rights, and you may be right. It makes me cringe though because it only serves to indicate ignorance (real or feigned) towards what the opposition thinks. That's just my pet peeve, though, and a bit of a digression from the point of the thread here. It's much harder to sustain a pro-life argument from an atheist perspective, so the premise of the thread led me to consider the issue from a religious point of view.
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