Non-biblical reasons to be pro-life

[rocklobster]

I am thinking of doing an article on my Aspie Catholic blog about being Pro-Life. A friend of mine suggested that I include non-biblical reasons for those who are not believers, since non-Christians also support the pro-life agenda. What reasons would you give, and where can I find research to back them up?

 

[John_Carlton]

I did research for this once, actually, when I gave my final speech in public speaking, “Abortion and Product Placement.” But that was a while ago, so I’m sorry, but I don’t have any links.Try googling, or if you’re more into philanthropy, goodsearching, “secular or atheist pro-life.” Seriously. Some of them are pretty snarky, sadly, but some are genuinely vested in their idea of the sanctity of life.

Moreover, I wanted to congratulate you on your choice to do a blog. I’m autistic also, of the Asperger’s strain. If you don’t mind my asking, what compelled you to begin a blog? I’ve been thinking of doing something akin to a blog for awhile… mostly dealing with topics your average Catholic wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole, thereby insuring the freshness of my material… but I’m also marvellously gutless. How’d you get over that hump?

 

[vera_dicere]

Science. Huzzah.

Keep the Bible out of the Abortion debate unless you know exactly what you’re doing, otherwise it can blow up in yoru face… there’s some nasty verses in Hosea which can prove a little embarrassing to the noob pro-lifer.

Life begins at conception. Its illogical and impractical to just assign the right to life to some arbritary point in pregnancy. Some pro-abort will say “after 30 weeks ban abortion”, others will say “25” other’s may even be quite reasonable and say 12. For the consistent pro-abort they will say abortion any stage any reason… which leads to well infanticide because there’s no difference bar location between the full term foetus and the new born baby.

The only time you can safely say human rights can begin is when human life begins, and that’s at conception.

Then of course there’s all that information about health consequences, depression, suicide rates, ethol and drug use of post abortive women. I also like to throw in facts that destory the whole “back alley coat hanger abortion” garbage, then there’s the whole thing about Ireland having one of the lowest, sometimes the lowest maternal mortality rate in the world - and also having illegal abortion.

Keep the Bible at out of it. Science, facts, and general common sense demands that the pro-life position is the only correct and logical position to have. Although, its nice to have a religious beleif that there’s a soul in that little person!

Where to find this stuff? Medical text books. Science text books. And a few refined searches on Google.

 

[Brightest_Star]

The best secular pro-life debate is going on now in my country - Canada - though the government refuses to open up the discussion.

We are the only country in the world that has NO laws restricting abortion. Whatsoever. For any reason, at any time, a woman can legally get an abortion. Right up to full term.

A study was done recently that noted that many of our immigrants are coming here, finding out through ultrasound that their child is a girl, and aborting it. They want a boy.

The idea of people killing girl babies has set off a cry of outrage from the feminists and atheists. Apparently, female fetus’s are ‘women’, and they deserve life. (The males are ‘a clump of cells’ still, and deserve nothing ).

This new debate might make a good point to your article. A secular society that feels a woman has every right to completely control her own body even if it includes aborting her baby - yet has a problem when women use that right to murder future women!

So, is aborting a fetus for any reason, at any time, okay -* so long as it’s a boy*? Major holes in the arguement there I’m sure you could get something out of.

Google: Canada abortion female fetus
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