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Too Many Pro-Choice Talking Points Border On Propaganda
1) Abortions don't=miscarriages
2)Pro-lifers respect the sanctity of human life, something society as a whole has lost. It's not even about religion
3) 97.6% of pregnancies aren't a result of rape
thefederalist.com/2019/05/17/man…
1) Abortions don't=miscarriages
2)Pro-lifers respect the sanctity of human life, something society as a whole has lost. It's not even about religion
3) 97.6% of pregnancies aren't a result of rape
thefederalist.com/2019/05/17/man…
There’s something deeply scary about the gaslighting that’s going on with abortion. Many pro-choicers claim anti-abortion legislation is nothing but a ploy to control women—their bodies, their purse strings, their heads, their futures.
I think it’s easier to frame this as a “Handmaid’s Tale”-type dystopian struggle, instead of what it really is: We cannot come to a scientific or moral consensus on when life begins and whether young life is worthy of protection the same way older life is.
We all have a different line we draw, and most of us have a sense of visceral, unshakable discomfort with abortion after a certain point (this is why polling shows many more people are in favor of first-trimester abortions than third-trimester abortions).
Maybe it looks too much like a baby; maybe the viability point makes it real for some. Maybe the capacity to feel pain plays an important role. Maybe the presence of fingernails underlines the humanness of the fetus inside, or some other body part’s development speaks to us.
There are a lot of valid reasons to be pro-choice, none of which I agree with. Some people believe the autonomy and rights of the mother trump the rights of the fetus and recognize that it is likely killing, but that’s a price they’re comfortable paying.
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about the intentional distortion of what pro-lifers believe, other than blatant intellectual dishonesty, is that it means we can’t actually talk about areas of technological advancement that might mean we can sidestep the bloodletting altogether
There are a lot of interesting ethical dilemmas presented by abortion, and deeply rooted moral disagreements that change how we evaluate this issue. But propaganda surely doesn't help us achieve any sort of lasting consensus or understanding.
It’s beginning to make me believe that we’re not only failing Ideological Turing Tests, but effectively saying they don’t matter and never did.
