Originally Posted by
theengel
Again, I refer back to my original idea. I honestly believe it's murder. It has nothing to do with women's rights. It has nothing to do with women at all. I believe it is wrong to murder innocent defenseless people. That's the entire issue. All the other arguments are inconsequential.
For example, the one about Margaret Sanger. It doesn't matter if she was a good woman or an evil one. If she was every bit as upstanding as Mother Theresa, it still wouldn't change the one, central argument: it's wrong to kill innocent people. Societal laws and social pressure should forbid it. Anyone with half a conscience should do what they can to put a stop to it.
But it's sometimes helpful to point these things out, because it very much supports the argument. Not so much in proving or disproving the biological facts (all of this has already been done, and anyone who denies it might find a grade school biology book helpful) but in showing the general nature of something so abhorrent. Bad things tend to breed bad things. Abortion is bad... and other bad things tend to revolve around it. Racism. Pornography and prostitution (and other forms of the objectification of women). Sex trafficking. Tyranny (let's not forget the forced abortions in China). The sale of human body parts. Pedophilia and incest.
Whether we look at the big picture (including people like Margaret Sanger and companies like Planned Parenthood) or we focus in on the small picture (the fact that taking an innocent human life is wrong) we still get the same picture. Abortion is wrong, and shouldn't be legal.
By the way, concerning "choice" and women's rights, studies show that around 65% of women who have abortions felt pressured to do so by others.
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