Pro-life or Pro-MURDER

Author: Dr.Franklin

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This is a motte and bailey argument.

The motte is that “murder, when defined as the killing of a human being after birth, is a bad thing.”

The bailey is that “murder, when defined as the killing of any human life whether before or after birth, is a bad thing.”

The first is intuitively obvious. The second is not. You’re just using the standard pro-life tactic of exploiting the intuitive response to the word “murder” and then slightly redefining it to suit your argument. I’ll hear you when you actually make the argument. 

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To be clear, I'm not highly confident in my opinion on abortion -- I'm calling out the argument, not whatever your political view is with respect to abortion.
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@Mopac
Immoral by whose standards?
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@dustryder
Are you pro- fetal ownership or against fetal ownership?
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@Greyparrot
I would definitely say that fetuses are owned
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@dustryder
Yep. So were slaves at one point before they were conferred legal personhood.
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pollywanna
So that fetus person should be released, it should not be imprisoned in the woman's body.
Free the fetus.
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@Mopac
They won't see anything wrong with "shagging".
Tell me what is wrong with shagging?


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@Mopac
Morality/immorality are abstract.
Therefore "shagging" is normal.
And marriage is a social construct.
Though neither of us is right and neither of us is wrong.
Given that there is no greater authority to judge us.  


Nonetheless; it's hypocritical of a Christian moralist to denounce their God's creation.

God createth the desire to shag.
Therefore; they will  shaggeth.

 

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@zedvictor4
It is written
He who shaggeth not liveth not.
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@Mopac
Your god is the cause of sexual immorality, for hundreds of thousands of years before your god was invented sexual immorality didn't exist.
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@Greyparrot
Your absolutely right. Perhaps we should revoke legal personhood from the descendants of the original slaves because clearly that was the incorrect decision and there is no difference between unborn fetuses and slaves.
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@dustryder
Who were the original slaves?
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And God said to them, " Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth and subdue it".

In other words, go forth and shag.


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@zedvictor4
What is up with the quote from Genesis?
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@dustryder
Or Alternatively the Scotus can confer legal personhood to a fetus to justify the ban on termination of pregnancy by killing a fetus at 24 weeks or some other arbitrary number they want to come up with. Would be nice to have the law applied consistently.

If the fetus isn't a legal person at 24 weeks, why the arbitrary ban?
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I read a depressing article that said making ultrasounds mandatory for people getting abortions had the effect of closing down 6 out of 7 legal abortion clinics in the district of a state due to a severe drop in demand of services.

That's depressing when a simple image causes that many people to rethink the method of terminating a pregnancy.
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@dustryder
Plus women can stop with the stupid slogan "my body my choice" and be much more accurate with "my fetus, my choice"

Because terminating a pregnancy does not have to involve destroying the fetus in most cases. In fact I doubt there would be any law restricting a termination of any pregnancy that does not destroy the fetus.
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@zedvictor4
This is foolish and ignorant sophistry.
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@Mopac
Why design a system that depends on sexual intercourse. If sexual intercourse is subsequently deemed to be immoral.

Would your God be that stupid.

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@zedvictor4
Sexual Intercourse is not considered immoral by Christians, Jews, or Muslims.  What are you trying to say?
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@Tejretics
This is a motte and bailey argument. [LINK]
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@Snoopy
The immorality of sex was definitely mentioned.

if God invented the system then why do mere mortals think that they can define the rules of the system?
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@zedvictor4
God isn't stupid, but he gave you the ability to choose to  be stupid.
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Sexual Intercourse is not considered immoral by Christians

It certainly isn't!


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@Mopac
God isn't stupid,
Prove it.

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@disgusted
You can't prove anything to a nihilist.
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@Mopac
Thank you for admitting to your lie.
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@Dr.Franklin
Abortion is an eraser that corrects the mistakes of God and men. This is of greater value than the lost pre-natal life.
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@Death23
So are extinction event level asteroid impacts.