Speaking For the Unborn (9.2)
You are just anti-woman, a misogynist
Arguments 38, 39, and 40: “You men should mind your own business!” “Abortion is purely a women’s issue.” “No uterus? No opinion!”
First Rebuttal: Nonsense. Abortion is a human issue, not a gender issue. Facts, logic, reason, and compassion have no anatomy. Whether men or women support these views is no more relevant than whether they're supported by blacks or whites. To believe otherwise is simply bigotry and sexism. You didn't have to be black to oppose slavery or a Jew to oppose Nazis. As Martin Luther King Jr. said regarding moral issues, "A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice." Ref1. Ref2. Ref3.
Second Rebuttal: Abortion is a human issue, not a gender issue. My personal identity has nothing to do with what is right or wrong. I don't surrender the right to take a stand on moral or political issues simply because of my skin color or gender. To suggest otherwise is racist, sexist, and bigoted. Ref.
Third Rebuttal: I would echo the sentiments of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln—that it would be cowardly and immoral to permit anyone to silence you on critical moral issues based on your skin color, your religion, or your sex. And to suggest otherwise is racist, sexist, and bigoted.
Argument 41: “The pro-life movement is just another example of men subjugating women.”
First Rebuttal: That's nonsense. First, opinion polls show that men are actually less opposed to abortion than women. Second, the overwhelming majority of Pro-Life workers and volunteers are women, not men. Third, the leader of nearly every national Pro-Life group is a woman! So the notion that the Pro-Life movement is a weapon used by men is pure fiction. Source.
Second Rebuttal: That's a demonstrably false statement—debunked by even a cursory review of the facts. The Pro-Life movement is led by women, not men (2021):
March for Life: Jeanne Mancini
Susan B. Anthony List: Marjorie Dannenfelser
Live Action: Lila Rose
And Then There Were None: Abby Johnson
Students for Life: Kristan Hawkins
Americans United for Life: Catherine Glenn Foster
New Wave Feminists: Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa
Right to Life: Carol Tobias
Ref. Source.
Third Rebuttal: Men are at their best when they exercise deep loyalties to women and children—when they take responsibility to protect and defend them. When men violate these duties, they are at their worst, becoming either abusers or cowards.
Argument 42: “If abortion is made illegal, thousands of women will die in back-alley and clothes-hanger abortions.”
First Rebuttal: That's a fiction based on the false testimony of former abortionist Bernard Nathanson, who once said that “5,000-10,000 women died of back-alley abortions each year prior to Roe." He now admits that he completely made up this number. In the years prior to Roe v. Wade, the actual number of abortion deaths of the mother was about 250 a year. Also before Roe, 90% of all illegal abortions were performed by physicians in back offices with surgical instruments, not in back alleys with clothes hangers. If abortion were once again made illegal, the small percentage of women seeking to break the law would resume this same “back office" medical practice. So "thousands of women dying from back-alley abortions and clothes hangers" is pure fiction.
Second Rebuttal: We must not legalize procedures that kill the innocent just to make the killing process less hazardous. . . . we don't try to make kidnapping or child abuse safe and legal. If abortion kills children, our goal should not be to make it as safe and legal as possible, but to provide alternatives and legal restrictions that help avoid it in the first place.
Third Rebuttal: We know from other countries that restricting abortion does not cause an increase in maternal deaths. Ireland and Malta, for example, have some of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world despite their tight abortion restrictions. And Poland experienced a documented decrease in maternal deaths when abortion was made illegal. Source.
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