Why is abortion harmful?

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Eaglejet23 said:
does personhood begin at conception
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That’s a very slippery slope.

Here’s a link to a post I wrote some time ago:
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The argument that convinces me to be Pro-Choice Social Justice
Some of it is already happening. Actually one of the arguments of pro-abortion ethicists is that one is a person only from the point at which one thinks and is aware of oneself as a subject - it’s easy to draw the conclusion of what happens when people are not aware of themselves any longer. With the same logic, but from the opposite starting point, the clear link between abortion and protection of the weakest was highlighted in the French case of Vincent Lambert, a tetraplegic man with limite…
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Yes, you read that right. French justice denied a handicapped man the right to live, because acknowledging he had it would have meant fetuses have it too.
 
I have a family member who was talked into an abortion by their spouse at the beginning of their marraige because they felt they were not ready. She now suffers from significant guilt and emotional/psychological issues. This is a trend amongst a high majority of women who have abortions.
 
Formon said:
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This was made for slaves.
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Yep. Regardless of race.
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Wow. Just wow. I have seen a lot lately but I think this ranks right up there with “White Supremacy was made up by Cultural Marxists”. Do you not get that chattel slavery in the American colonies and in the early United States was based on race?
 
Were free blacks counted as 3/5’s? Nope.

Were white slaves counted as 3/5’s?
Yep.

Not all slaves were black. Not all blacks were slaves.

If it was about race, are you calling the northerners the racists and the southern slave owners not?
 
Formon said:
Were free blacks counted as 3/5’s? Nope.

Were white slaves counted as 3/5’s?
Yep.

Not all slaves were black. Not all blacks were slaves.

If it was about race, are you calling the northerners the racists and the southern slave owners not?
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Such a view frankly ignores the historical context of the Three-Fifths Compromise. The North was afraid of the large slave population in the South, which would give Southern states more seats in the House of Representatives. Guess what the vast majority of slaves were in the United States? What do you imagine was the proportion of “freed men” in the country that were black? Because the Northern states sure weren’t worried about an abundance of white slaves.
 
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You should read Persuasive Pro-Life by Trent Horn. It is a fantastic book that gives you basically everything you need to know to be a successful pro-life advocate!

May God bless you all! 🙂
 
BabyWitch said:
But they don’t display any qualities that we normally associate with the human person, like reason, fear, love, faith, etc.
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Neither does a sleeping person.
BabyWitch said:
A mentally disabled person is just a person with impaired faculties as opposed to something that’s dependent on another being for survival.
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Now it changed from they can’t love or reason to they are dependant. You can’t just move goalposts to make things convienient.
 
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I’m very aware of that part of history. It was about slavery, not about race. If it were about race, white supremacists like Lincoln would have made it so.
 
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Abortion is the killing of life. It doesn’t matter that the life in question is considered parasitic by some- it is a life and someone is choosing to end it and- in the majority of cases- they were a willing participant in the act that caused said life to exist. God doesn’t have to come into the discussion. Also- abortion is not an adequate form of birth control. Anyone who says women aren’t adversely affected by their abortions are liars of the worst order.
 
If you got your leg caught in a combine, you would pretty much arrive on the answer as to why abortion might be harmful.
 
Eaglejet23 said:
Allow me to play the opposition. Studies show that the cerebral cortex the thing needed my our consciousness forms at 22 weeks. Even if I was to say they’re human they are not persons, therefore, it’s morally permissible to kill them.
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You may be aware of the question that is asked sometimes which is meant to highlight the difference in opinion that people have in regard to different stages of a pregnancy. Which is: If there is a fire in a building and you could save a frozen embryo or a baby, which would you choose?

If you find someone who would honestly not make any distinction, then you will have found someone who actually thinks that personhood begins even before pregnancy commences. That a zygote, for example, is a person.
 
Formon said:
Not all blacks were slaves.
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No, only about 89% or so. So that makes it all okay? “Based on” does not imply “universal”. The documented cases of persons with no African ancestry being enslaved in the United States, typically against existing law, are exceedingly rare. And please stop trying to justify any of it.
 
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