“only those with ears can hear”.
Indeed.
And one cannot have ears to hear when one equates the dependency a naturally growing child has in the natural womb with the dependency a naturally dying man has on artificial life support. If one claims abortion’s not murder because it’s not murder to take a dying man off life support, one severely fails to see the very fundamental reality of life itself. A child is
naturally growing, and a dying man is
naturally dying. Letting nature take it’s own course in both cases naturally results in the death of the dying man, and naturally results in the LIFE of the unborn child. When we intervene in the latter, we are simply letting nature take over. When we intervene in the former, we are telling nature “no”. We are playing God.
And one cannot have ears to hear when one equates the right to abortion with the right to privacy, the right to protection from random home invasion. Such an obnoxious claim blatantly ignores the lack of required similarity in the issues one is comparing. Of
course the law protecting citizens from random federal invasion is sound and just. Because when there is no known and significant reason to invade, a person’s privacy has primacy. But this is not what’s happening with abortion. It is widely, publicly known what is going on with abortion. It is widely known that the life of a child is being threatened, or terminated. It is not a privacy issue because the right to privacy presumes innocence in the absence of revealing data to the contrary. With abortion, we have the diabolical evidence.
And one cannot have ears to hear when one places more value on an illogically extreme sense of “own body ownership rights” than they do on human life itself. To do so, one has to claim such while fully ignoring the fact that another person is part of the issue. In no other issue regarding what goes on inside a person’s body is there another person directly involved and directly impacted by the choice made. Even if one were cold enough to support legal suicide and allow for someone the choice to remove a vital organ from their body, this is not the same as their right to remove another life. The other life, since it will naturally develop a sense of it’s own personal choices of the value of its own life, and because a vital organ will never have that capability, it is a non-sequitur to claim that allowing for the removal of the latter should justify allowing for the removal of the former.
And finally, one cannot have ears to hear when one avoids answering questions pertaining to their personal sense of morality of killing a person.
When one recognizes these things and begins to understand the fallacy of their claims, one begins to have ears.