So pro-life people should strongly stress this simple, basically undeniable fact, that human life (or better, lives) begin at conception. Then what? One possibility is pushing the narrative that there are times when taking a human life is morally defensible or even laudable (which is true). I would like to be in on that discussion!
There is simply no question that "human lives begin at conception" is a decisive positional advantage for the pro-life argument. That's why pro-choicers go to extraordinary lengths to try and deny it.
I agree 100%, in case that wasn't apparent. And I believe that pro-abortion folks believe it, too, and are already formulating counter-arguments. Consider one possibility: "while it is true that a human life begins at conception, it is also true that at times it is defensible or even laudable to take a human life, for instance when it is a matter of self-defense." I would love to be part of a discussion that started like this. I imagine I would say something like, "yes, I agree with you.....so if a pregnancy did NOT threaten a woman's life, she wouldn't be entitled to an abortion?" But what is the pro-abortion counter to that? I haven't thought that through and hope you have, Mr. Morris. I do have hope that even honest folk with no moral or religious objection to abortion are amenable to reason, or, if not, helpless before it.
So pro-life people should strongly stress this simple, basically undeniable fact, that human life (or better, lives) begin at conception. Then what? One possibility is pushing the narrative that there are times when taking a human life is morally defensible or even laudable (which is true). I would like to be in on that discussion!
There is simply no question that "human lives begin at conception" is a decisive positional advantage for the pro-life argument. That's why pro-choicers go to extraordinary lengths to try and deny it.
I agree 100%, in case that wasn't apparent. And I believe that pro-abortion folks believe it, too, and are already formulating counter-arguments. Consider one possibility: "while it is true that a human life begins at conception, it is also true that at times it is defensible or even laudable to take a human life, for instance when it is a matter of self-defense." I would love to be part of a discussion that started like this. I imagine I would say something like, "yes, I agree with you.....so if a pregnancy did NOT threaten a woman's life, she wouldn't be entitled to an abortion?" But what is the pro-abortion counter to that? I haven't thought that through and hope you have, Mr. Morris. I do have hope that even honest folk with no moral or religious objection to abortion are amenable to reason, or, if not, helpless before it.