Posted by lynne | Apr 13th, 2010

Men shouldn’t have a say about abortion…What?

“Men shouldn’t have anything to say about abortion – it’s a woman’s issue.” This ad hominem attack ignores the issue of abortion and attacks the gender of the pro-lifer.  This attack is hardly relevant, since arguments and ideas don’t have sexual organs. Gender has nothing to do with the validity of an argument. This reply, usually heard from the most militant and out of touch...

Posted by lynne | Mar 29th, 2010

It is only a potential life

Pro-abortionists commonly dehumanize the unborn in order to justify abortion by referring to the unborn as a “potential life.” But calling an unborn child a “potential life” is just a clever rhetorical trick. There is no such thing as a “potential life.” There are two options. First, we can potentially create life, that is, create a potential for life. When a man and a woman get married and have sex,...

Posted by lynne | Mar 18th, 2010

Abortion is Not Health Care

Women in the US can terminate their pregnancy at any time during the usual nine months of fetal development–for any reason–or no reason at all. Often, pro-choice proponents say that abortion must be kept legal because of all the cases where the mother’s life is in danger. But did you know, according to Planned Parenthood’s own statistics, only 6% of the 1.37 million abortions occurring annually in...

Posted by lynne | Feb 11th, 2010

Abortion: the Antidote for Child Abuse

I was recently talking to a pro-choice friend of mine about the Tim Tebow ad. After expressing how hypocritical I thought it was of the so-called women’s advocacy groups to be so negative about Pam’s “choice” to not have an abortion (see my post “Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad = Free Speech”), and after graciously listening to me for a little while, my friend responded by saying,...

Posted by lynne | Jan 25th, 2010

Just the Facts

“I’m personally opposed to abortion, but I don’t want to impose my view on others” Just the facts please This relativistic response is known as the “modified pro-choice” position. Though this view may seem difficult to oppose, it’s actually very easy to help the person who holds it to see the problem, if you ask the right question. If you aks them, “Why do you personally oppose...