Anti-abortion/arguments

Overview
This page is for examination of arguments starting from an anti-abortion position.

Slogans
Slogans -- such as those frequently seen on bumper-stickers, t-shirts, and billboards -- are essentially the re-packaging of a complex argument in a small number of words with a powerful emotional impact. Many of them fall apart when you actually specify the implied components, however.

Free-form Discussion
This section is for more free-form discussion of anti-abortion positions, written to be emotionally appealing but longer than a slogan. An animal being killed for food and a living, breathing human being, who just has yet to leave the mother's uterus is a completely different thing. And capital punishment is used only on sick, disgusting, and violent murderers like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, etc., who had their chance to not kill people, and blew it. What I don't understand is how you people can defend rapists and murderers on death row, but support the murder of innocent children.
 * absurdly long username said, in response to counter 2.2 under (above):

responses
I don't support the murder of innocent children; I support the mother's right to request the killing of her unborn baby for any damn reason she likes -- although I will settle for some restrictions, e.g. the baby must not be able to survive outside the womb, if necessary in order to reach an agreement. I will absolutely not stand for any restrictions on abortion prior to the fetus's growing nerves, as up to that point it is just a lump of flesh (not a human being, not even an animal, but barely equivalent to a vegetable).

If you had been falsely accused of murder and wound up on death row, wouldn't you want someone defending you?

--Woozle 02:32, 24 November 2008 (UTC)