Sunday, June 22, 2014

Top 5 Biggest Pro-Choice Fails 


Ok, this is basically just a list of things that pro-choicers, do, say, and assume that frankly, just don't help facilitate a civil and intelligent conversation with pro-lifers (like myself) at all. 

1. "All pro-lifers are sexist old white men." Really? Really? News flash, more WOMEN than men show up at the March 4 Life year after year. Just because the Republican Party, which for decades has taken an anti-abortion position is ruled by sexist white guys, doesn't mean the movement is. 

2. "If you haven't adopted or are not financially supporting a bunch of foster-kids you have no room to talk. Um, you don't have to have the financial resources to raise a child to be smart enough to realize getting killing an unborn human being is morally wrong. 

3. "Pro-lifers are against comprehensive sex-ed" Another stereotype, again, just because the republican leadership tends to be, doesn't mean that all pro-lifers agree with them. Personally I'm a big preponent of comprehenisve sex ed. I don't think that sex at such a young age should be glorified or anything, but if a teenager is going to have sex, they need to have the tools and the know-how to prevent the potentially negative concequences by being slightly less irresponsible (using birth-control). 

4. "Pro-lifers don't give a crap after it's born" Yet another case of confusing pro-life philosophy with the policies of the average republican. Many pro-lifeers are very much for public aid, but public aid reformed to go where it actually needs to go, so less abuse takes place and fewer people who are actually in need are turned away. 

5. "All pro-lifers are bible-thumping, fundamentalist evangelicals" You have no idea how often I get this one. 1, acting as if any group is one monolithic blob, is just intellectually dishonest, 2 the most hardlined anti-abortion denominations in the Christian world are the Roman Catholic Church, and the Orthodox Church, both of whom are about as far from evangelical fundamentalism as you can get. Actually people like this will often claim that we aren't Christians. This poor excuse for an argument is seems to be born out of a desire to associate the pro-life cause with those deemed "the Crazy fringe religious wingnutts" by popular culture in an attempt at a strawman fallacy 

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