#abortion arguments

[moon-cricket-chirps]

[keatsdarkling]

As someone who is agnostic (ex-irish catholic), I very rarely see any non theistic arguments against abortion. If anyone on tumblr would like to inform me of their’s, for a polite convo pls, could you please message me your argument so I can understand it. 

[dickensign]

Schaeffer, considered by many the intellectual godfather of the religious right, was not known for his political activism, but by the late 1970s he decided that legalized abortion would lead inevitably to infanticide and euthanasia, and he was eager to sound the alarm.

The Real Origins of the Religious Right - POLITICO Magazine

So, you know, it’s been 40 years or so since then. I don’t see infanticide happening, do you?

[thepro-lifemovement]

3 Non-religious reasons why I'm against abortion

In human history there seems to always be this repetition of dehumanizing people in order to make others feel as though what they are doing is justified. Americans in the early 1800s dehumanized slaves saying they were merely property and not people. Hitler and the Nazi’s dehumanized Jews during WWII, treating them as pests. And now abortion supporters dehumanizing the unborn. You might argue that a fetus is not a human, and therefore, cannot be dehumanized, but science disagrees: https://lozierinstitute.org/a-scientific-view-of-when-life-begins/. After three decades of scientific and medical discoveries, life beginning at conception has only been more verified and solidified in truth: http://www.justthefacts.org/get-the-facts/when-life-begins/. Now that it is established that a fetus is a pre-born human being, what difference does it make when a mother kills her newborn child as opposed to killing her child inside the womb? Just because a human is not yet born, does not mean that it is any less human than a newborn infant. The difference is the government deems one infanticide and the other a legal action. Not only is abortion scientifically killing a human being, it also leaves psychological effects on many women post-abortion. One sample research showed that “abortion was associated with increased risk for 12 mental health problems, including panic attacks, panic disorder, PTSD, major depression, bipolar disorder and substance abuse disorders”: http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF10B09.pdf. If any of this sounds too biased, then here is a link of all of the facts on abortion, ranging from the science behind it, women’s health, politics associated with it, and foot notes of where they got their information from: http://www.justfacts.com/abortion.asp. To say that abortion is not an act of killing a human person is to go against scientific fact, and it’s sad to see the abortion industry ignore the testimonies of former abortionists and the women who regret their abortion. So my three reasons are it dehumanizes the unborn, it's an act of killing a human person, and it increases mental health risks in women, especially the suicide rate.

[punkpugs]

Comparing Abortion to Rape. Anti-Choicers: "But the baby didn't intentionally invade her body like a rapist!"

Irrelevant. Consent is consent is consent. It doesn't matter what the fetus/rapist intended, it matters what the woman consents to. If the woman does not consent, the two things are comparable, and both situations are a violation of her rights. If someone doesn't intend to violate someone's rights, it doesn't mean violated party is revoked of the right to stop the violation. Once again, anti's are only thinking about the fetus and not the woman.