In response to the pro-life position, I have heard many college students say, "Everyone has their own morality, so someone shouldn't tell me what to do." Another popular response is "If my morality isn't affecting you, then just leave me alone. If I want to have an abortion, I will."
There are a few rebuttals to this. First, you can ask them if the Holocaust was wrong. Most of the time they will agree. Using their logic, one can say that Hitler's morality was that killing Jews was the right thing to do. Was slavery wrong? Many slave owners believed it was moral to have slaves. They may have an answer that states, "Well, I'm talking about just personal morality, not on the level of the Holocaust or slavery."
"What if I go up to you and take your backpack or purse because my morality says it's right?" If they say that it's wrong to do that, tell them that they may really believe in moral standards much more than they think they do. They may come back with, "I should be able to do what I want as long as I'm not hurting anyone or negatively affecting another person." Then the subject can come back to the abortion issue and the nature of the unborn. "Isn't an abortion hurting someone else?" Then they will have to defend their morality position in the light of an abortion.
Another pro-choice approach is seen often on a bumper sticker "If you don't like abortion, don't have one. This is easy to debunk. It has nothing to do with liking or not liking abortion. The pro-life belief is that abortion is morally wrong. One could insert any subject matter into that slogan that often would create an outcry. If you don't like robbing banks, don't do it. If you don't like slavery, don't own a slave. If you like chocolate chip cookies and I hate them, it doesn't say chocolate chip cookies are morally bad; it just states that I prefer them and you don't. The pro-life view is that abortion is an absolute moral wrong while the pro-choice view is one of preference.
April 17, 2008
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Great post! You sound like a very moral person.
Let's get this straight: having an abortion doesn't harm anyone, contrary to what any anti-choice propaganda tries to convince people. A fetus isn't a "baby" when it's a few weeks old. It's not "murder" or "extermination," and comparisons to the Holocaust are just plain offensive. Six million Jews died because of centuries of anti-Semitism. Hitler didn't all of a sudden decide he felt like gassing Jews. No woman has an abortion because she has something against fetuses. Abortion isn't about racism or prejudice. She just doesn't want to be pregnant! What's so wrong with that? It's not 1850. Women are more than glorified incubators who should stay barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
Is a fetus alive? Yes. So are cancerous tumors. So are plants - is it wrong to mow the lawn or prune the hedges because they're alive? Is it wrong to exfoliate your skin because skin cells are alive? Is it wrong to have your tonsils or appendix removed?
Is a fetus sentient? No. Is it conscious? No. It's in a woman's body, and your body is YOUR property, NOT the government's. No government should ever tell you what to do with your body. That's what Hitler did.
Back to the Holocaust comparisons: are any fetuses shipped off to Auschwitz or Dachau to be worked or starved to death? Do they have their heads shaved and numbers tattooed on their arms? Are they forced to wear yellow stars and live in ghettos? Do they have their rights and possessions stripped from them? Are they sent to gas chambers and then burned in crematoriums? One word: an emphatic "NO." The Holocaust was wrong - if you don't believe that, you're sick. Abortion? It's nothing like the Holocaust, and the comparisons disgust me.
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