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These common pro-choice arguments can be effectively
rebutted using Randy Alcorn's excellent responses.
For full text and in-depth explanation of the
responses, see "Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice
Arguments" by Randy Alcorn.
All arguments/responses are excerpted
from Mr. Alcorn's book - highly recommended
by the Survivors as your number one resource
for defending the pro-life position from all
sides.
"The unborn isn’t a person,
with meaningful life. It’s only inches in
size and can’t even think; it’s less
advanced than an animal, and anyway, who says
people have a greater right to live than animals?”
- Even if someone believes that people are no
better than animals, why would they abhor the
killing of young animals, while advocating the
killing of young children?
- It is dangerous when people in power are
free to determine whether other, less powerful
lives are meaningful.
“Every woman should have control
over her own body. Reproductive freedom is a basic
right.”
- Even abortion advocates must acknowledge
that the “right to control my life”
argument has no validity if the unborn is a
human being.
- It is demeaning to a woman’s body and
self-esteem to regard pregnancy as an unnatural,
negative, and “out of control” condition.
“I’m personally against abortion,
but I’m still pro-choice. It’s a legal
alternative and we don’t have the right
to keep it from anyone. Everyone’s free
to believe what they want, but we shouldn’t
try to impose it on others.”
- The only good reason for being personally
against abortion is a reason that demands we
be against other people choosing to have abortions.
- What is legal is not always right.
“Every child should be a wanted
child. It’s unfair to children to bring
them into a world where they’re not wanted.”
- There is a difference between an unwanted
pregnancy and an unwanted child.
- What is most unfair to "unwanted children"
is to kill them.
“What about a woman whose life
is threatened by pregnancy or childbirth?”
- When two lives are threatened and only one
can be saved, doctors must always save that
life.
- Abortion for the mother’s life and
abortion for the mother’s health are usually
not the same issue.
“What about a woman whose unborn
baby is diagnosed as deformed or handicapped?”
- The arguments for killing a handicapped unborn
child are valid only if they also apply to killing
born people who are handicapped.
- The doctor’s diagnosis is sometimes
wrong.
“What about a woman who is pregnant
due to rape or incest?”
- Rape is never the fault of the child; the
guilty party, not an innocent party, should
be punished.
- The violence of abortion parallels the violence
of rape.
“Pro-life people don’t care
about women, and they don’t care about babies
once they’re born. They have no right to
speak against abortion unless they are willing
to care for these children.”
- Pro-lifers are actively involved in caring
for women in crisis pregnancies and difficult
child-raising situations.
“Anti-abortion people talk about
the sanctity of human life, yet they favor capital
punishment.”
- Not all pro-lifers favor capital punishment.
- There is a vast difference between punishing
a convicted murderer and killing an innocent
child.
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