How to Stump Anti-Abortionists With One Question « Unreasonable Faith:
January 21, 2009 by Daniel FlorienDid you know you can stump anti-abortionists with one simple question?
Just ask them this:
If abortion was illegal, what should be done with the women who have illegal abortions?
An ex-coworker came up w/ an amazing insight into the question of whether or not abortion was murder. His concept was this: we know that babies are formed from the union of semen and an egg, but the burning question that needs to be answered is, “When does human life begin?”
If you remove a fetus from it’s mother too early, it’s chances of surviving are very small, so why not choose the point at which a fetus can survive on it’s own as the point when human life begins? Abortions could be allowed before then, and not after. Yes? No?
4 Comments
Tony
I am certainly not a “Right to Life” dude, but I have to think that this guy cherry picked the responses he got. The only logical answer would be that you would charge the women with murder.
The basis of the attempt to ban abortions is that the procedure is killing a living person. These folks regard legal abortions as a type of Holocaust. If that is the basis of a ban, then violating the ban would be the illegal and intentional taking of a human life.
This leads to all sorts of problems. If a pregnant woman smokes or drinks, are they endangering a child? Should they be arrested for it? How about riding a bike, or eating processed meat, or not taking enough folic acid? Once an embryo is given the same status as a born child there is a ton of legal implications.
MacDork
That certainly leads to all sorts of interesting questions. What amused me about the video was just how stunned the demonstrators were when posed with the question. I think there's a reasonable point after which the fetus is considered a human. Beyond that point, it should be illegal to abort, much like it is right now.
Tony
I am certainly not a “Right to Life” dude, but I have to think that this guy cherry picked the responses he got. The only logical answer would be that you would charge the women with murder.
The basis of the attempt to ban abortions is that the procedure is killing a living person. These folks regard legal abortions as a type of Holocaust. If that is the basis of a ban, then violating the ban would be the illegal and intentional taking of a human life.
This leads to all sorts of problems. If a pregnant woman smokes or drinks, are they endangering a child? Should they be arrested for it? How about riding a bike, or eating processed meat, or not taking enough folic acid? Once an embryo is given the same status as a born child there is a ton of legal implications.
MacDork
That certainly leads to all sorts of interesting questions. What amused me about the video was just how stunned the demonstrators were when posed with the question. I think there's a reasonable point after which the fetus is considered a human. Beyond that point, it should be illegal to abort, much like it is right now.