Anti-abortion

Overview

The anti-abortion viewpoint, most commonly found under the larger umbrella of the more appealing term "pro-life", refers to the view that abortion is wrong, regardless of the reason, and should be illegal in most if not all cases

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Groups

• Army of God: "a pro-life organization that honors those who murder abortion providers as 'heroes'" according to [1]

Slogans

• Life is a gift, not a choice.
• "Abortion stops a beating heart." – only if the embryo is old enough to have one (apparently happens sometime during the 5th to 8th weeks of pregnancy), and so does capital punishment, eating meat (until vat-grown meat is available, anyway), hunting (for sport or food)...
• "Your mother chose life." Not everyone is happy with this, despite popular assumption.
• "Abortion: the worst kind of child abuse." Killing an entity with no nerves, much less consciousness, is worse than child abuse?
• "As a former fetus, I oppose abortion." As a former fetus, I support it.

Links

News & Views

• 2007-11-06 A Fresh Challenge to the Religious Right's View of Abortion by Frederick Clarkson: according to a new book by Gary Willis, "Much of the debate over abortion is based on a misconception, that this is a religious issue, that the pro-life advocates are acting out of religious conviction. It is not a theological matter at all. There is no theological basis for either defending or condemning abortion. Even the popes have said that it is a matter of natural law, to be decided by natural reason."