Maedhros (7,157 posts)
2. You can't reason someone OUT OF a position that they didn't reason themselves INTO.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is an example of this character's "reasoning"?
I don't know every Pro-Lifer in the world - or even the US - so I won't presume to speak for or of all Pro-Lifers. This character should be so honest!
Speaking for myself, back in the mid-70s, when I was undecided about abortion, I used my reason to come to my position. I asked myself, what is aborted. My thinking was that if the fetus is not alive or is not human, then abortion could be permissible. It didn't take long, once I framed the key question. I quickly realized:
* The fetus is alive, as evidenced by growth;
* The fetus is human (and not part of the woman), as evidenced by his/her chromosomes;
* The fetus is simply an arbitrarily named stage in a "program" of growth that, if uninterrupted, is continuous from fertilization of the egg through death in old age.
Thus, I reasoned myself into the Pro-Life POV. That reasoning also answers rather easily the supposedly tough cases of incest, rape, or genetic defects. The baby is still human.