Tag: Pro-Choice
Abortion in case of rape
A while back, my Facebook shared an amazing, gentle, yet knock-out response to an awful and awfully biased article from CBS which I thought was worth sharing…
CBS News is currently using a heart-breaking situation involving an 11 year old girl to advocate for abortion, and against a new Ohio heartbeat law that would prohibit most all abortions.
Rape is such a horrible crime, and if the man currently charged is found guilty of committing it against this girl, then he should be prosecuted and sentenced to the full extent of the law. Any woman or girl who has suffered such a terrible violation needs and deserves our compassion and help, not accusations of “delinquency” — as the story alleges.
Biology and Bodily Autonomy
Last month, one of my friends posted an image of this Instagram conversation on her Facebook account:
No Straw Men Here
The point of the post is clear – you don’t get to call a child an abomination just because of the manner of his or her conception. However, a man named Sam responded by writing the following:
This is a straw man. Just because some people are rude does not mean you get to take away women’s choices
Sam on Facebook
Sam had clearly seen people use the phrase “straw man” in arguments before, but doesn’t understand what it means. The Straw Man Fallacy is when an argument is misrepresented or weakened in an attempt to make it more easily refuted. However, that’s not happening here… In the image, thewhistestguy called unborn children conceived in incest/rape an “abomination of nature”. The user albany_rose pointed out that, if he’s willing to apply this slur to the unborn, he’s implicitly applying this slur to those who are born.
Read moreSurgery In The Womb
As medicine advances attempts to dehumanize the unborn will become more and more ridiculous…
Abortion for the kid’s sake?
When people try and justify abortion by saying that it’s in the child’s best interest…
Personhood and Death Certificates
This past week was the March For Life in Washington DC, so I thought I’d do a post on the subject of abortion…
A couple of weeks ago, I published a brief post a blog post related to Martin Luther King. Earlier in the week, I had been speaking to someone on Facebook about abortion. The pro-choice advocate had been arguing against any legal restrictions against abortion. He said that ethical behaviour isn’t brought about by the law, it only cultivates fear of being caught. I responded with a quotation from Dr. King, to show why laws which protect people are necessary:
The other day I was looking at the management panel for the Restless Pilgrim Facebook Page and noticed that someone had left a response:
Read more“A clump of cells is not a person”
Facebook user
The Pattern of Abortion Discussion online
Over the last month or so, I have been involved in quite a few online discussions about abortion and I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect upon a few of the interactions as several of them involved strange arguments and bewildering claims…
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