Suppose you were driving along and a cop pulls in behind you. You check your speed and you are going 25 mi/hr over the limit. You pull over, your mind races. You know the speed limit on that stretch of road. You know that speeding can get you a ticket. Further, you know that driving that much over the speed limit can get your license suspended and your car impounded. You know all of this, yet you were speeding anyway.
As your mind flashes through all of these things, as you think about how stupid you were, you get more and more desperate. Not only do you not have the money to pay the ticket, but forget about getting the car out of impound. Even worse, if you lose your license you will lose your job. No job, no money...how will you live? Even if you can get a nothing job so that you can eat and pay rent, your career will be derailed. Oh, and no more fun--no more nice restaurants, no more trips, no more drinks at the bar with your friends.... To cap it all off, the embarrassment is more than you can face.
But, wait, there is a way out, you have another choice! It is one that you never thought you would use. It is one that you do not wish was necessary. You have a gun in your purse, given to you for self-defense. This is self-defense, right? You are defending your right to live your life as you want, your right to pursue happiness. All you have to do is shoot the cop and the whole thing goes away....
Ridiculous? No more so to me than killing an unborn human being and calling it a choice.
[This was originally posted as a response to someone's comments on this blog entry.]
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Paul,
Not that your argument doesn't have merit, but rather is not crafted well to persuade someone in the pro-abort crowd. (You are 'preaching to the choir').
Before anyone can intellectually reach the question of 'choice' they must first have passed (or more than likely 'by-passed') the question of LIFE. If a person first decides (or concludes) that the unborn is not a life, the question of choice is irrelevent. On the other had, once a person understands that the unborn is a life the matter of choice cannot even be raised.
Because most people on the 'pro-abort' side (I believe) have by-passed rather than addressed this question of life, the most valueable argument that can be made is one which steers them to the inevitable truth that "Life begins as conception" and once they understand this fact the question of choice is moot!
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