How to Defend Your Pro-Life Views in 5 Minutes or Less

FAITH THE 5-MINUTE PRO-LIFER Making the Case for Life Like It Has Never Been Heard Before by: FR. GAMMY TULABING How to Defend Your Pro-Life Views in 5 Minutes or Less

I would like to share with you this article from Scott Klusendorf.

Suppose that you have just five minutes to graciously defend your pro-life beliefs with friends or classmates. Can you do it with rational arguments? What shouldyou say? And how can you simplify the abortion issue for those who think it is

hopelessly complex?Here is how to succeed in three easy steps: 1) Clarify the issue

Pro-life advocates contend that elective abortion unjustly takes the life of a defenseless human being.

This simplifies the abortion controversy by focusing public attention on just one question: Is the unborn a member of the human family? If so, killing him or her to benefit others is a serious moral wrong. It treats the distinct human being, with his or her own inherent moral worth, as nothing more than a disposable instrument. Conversely, if the unborn are not human, killing them for any reason requires no more justification than having a tooth pulled.

In other words, arguments based on choice or privacymissthe point entirely. Would anyone that you know support a mother killing her toddler in the name of choice and who decides? Clearly, if the unborn are human, like toddlers, we shouldnt kill them in the name of choice anymore than we would a toddler. Again, this debate is about just one question: What is the unborn?

At this point, some may object that your comparisons are not fairthat killing a fetus is morally different than killing a toddler. Ah, but that is the issue, is it not ? Are the unborn, like toddlers, members of the human family? That is the one issue that matters.

Remind your critics that you are vigorously pro-choice when it comes to women choosing a number of moral goods. You support a womans right to choose her own doctor, to choose her own husband, to choose her own job, and to choose her own religion, to name a few. These are among the many choices that you fully support for women. But some choices are wrong, like killing innocent human beings simply because they are in the way and cannot defend themselves.No, we should not be allowed to choose that. 2) Defend your pro-life position with science and philosophy.

Scientifically, we know that from the earliest stages of development, the unborn are distinct, living, and whole human beings. Leading embryology books confirm this. Prior to his abortion advocacy, former Planned Parenthood President Dr. AlanGuttmacherwas perplexed that anyone, much less a medical doctor, would question this. This all seems so simple and evident that it is difficult to picture a time when it was not part of the common knowledge, he wrote in his book Life in the Making.

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How to Defend Your Pro-Life Views in 5 Minutes or Less