If You've Got A Minute, You Can Defend Life.
Day 14
Did you know that you can make a pro-life case in 60 seconds or less? Here's how to do it:
I am pro-life because the science of embryology establishes that from the earliest stages of development, you were a distinct, living, and whole human being. And there is not essential difference between the embryo you once were and the adult you are today that justifies killing you at that earlier stage of development. Differences of size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependency are not good reasons for saying you could be killed then but not now.
That one-minute case is not plucked out of thin air. It's rock-solid. It's based on the syllogism. Don't let that word frighten you. A syllogism is simply a formal wat of presenting your case with a series of premises (statements). If the premises are true, the conclusion follows. All good arguments can be put in a syllogism. The pro-life syllogism looks like this.
P1: It is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being.
P2: Abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being.
P3: Therefore, abortion is wrong.
The support for that syllogism is strong. First Science affirms the unborn are human. Embryologists Ronan O'Rahilly and Fabiola Muller write, "Although like is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed."
Second, that the unborn are innocent goes without saying. Dependent human beings at that stage of development cannot intentionally harm anyone. Abortion-choicers sometimes reply that the high number of miscarriages proves abortion is morally permissible. But that's nonsense. Just because nature spontaneously aborts high numbers of embryos does not mean that they are not living human beings or that I may intentionally kill them! Many third world countries have high infant mortality rates, but tit doesn't follow that those infants aren't human.
Admittedly, miscarriages are tragic. But as journalist Andrew Sullivan points out, just because earthquakes happen doesn't mean mass murder is justified.
In face did you know that leading abortion-choice advocates affirm abortion is intentional killing? Feminist Camille Paglia writes, "Hence I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue." And Ronald Dworkin states, "Abortion deliberately kills a developing embryo" and is " a choice for death". Author Naomi Wolf candidly admits, and encouraged other abortion advocates to admit that the death of the fetus is a real death and wants other abortion-choice advocates to do the same. Abortionist Warren Hern once told a Planned Parenthood conference, "We have reached a point in this particular technology where these is not possibility of denying an act of destruction. It is before one's eyes. The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like electric current."
Therefore, the conclusion follows: Abortion is wrong.
I am pro-life because the science of embryology establishes that from the earliest stages of development, you were a distinct, living, and whole human being. And there is not essential difference between the embryo you once were and the adult you are today that justifies killing you at that earlier stage of development. Differences of size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependency are not good reasons for saying you could be killed then but not now.
That one-minute case is not plucked out of thin air. It's rock-solid. It's based on the syllogism. Don't let that word frighten you. A syllogism is simply a formal wat of presenting your case with a series of premises (statements). If the premises are true, the conclusion follows. All good arguments can be put in a syllogism. The pro-life syllogism looks like this.
P1: It is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being.
P2: Abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being.
P3: Therefore, abortion is wrong.
The support for that syllogism is strong. First Science affirms the unborn are human. Embryologists Ronan O'Rahilly and Fabiola Muller write, "Although like is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed."
Second, that the unborn are innocent goes without saying. Dependent human beings at that stage of development cannot intentionally harm anyone. Abortion-choicers sometimes reply that the high number of miscarriages proves abortion is morally permissible. But that's nonsense. Just because nature spontaneously aborts high numbers of embryos does not mean that they are not living human beings or that I may intentionally kill them! Many third world countries have high infant mortality rates, but tit doesn't follow that those infants aren't human.
Admittedly, miscarriages are tragic. But as journalist Andrew Sullivan points out, just because earthquakes happen doesn't mean mass murder is justified.
In face did you know that leading abortion-choice advocates affirm abortion is intentional killing? Feminist Camille Paglia writes, "Hence I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue." And Ronald Dworkin states, "Abortion deliberately kills a developing embryo" and is " a choice for death". Author Naomi Wolf candidly admits, and encouraged other abortion advocates to admit that the death of the fetus is a real death and wants other abortion-choice advocates to do the same. Abortionist Warren Hern once told a Planned Parenthood conference, "We have reached a point in this particular technology where these is not possibility of denying an act of destruction. It is before one's eyes. The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like electric current."
Therefore, the conclusion follows: Abortion is wrong.
What to Pray for Today:
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1. Pray for Moral Awakening
Although the authors above frankly admit that abortion intentionally kills a human fetus, they refuse to accept the conclusion that logically follows. They aren't stupid. They are blind. Pray that God opens eyes to the moral truth about abortion. |
2. Pray for Spiritual Awakening
Pray that God finds those that are blinded and makes them spiritually alive through the new birth. They don't need religion. They need life! |
3. Pray for Opportunities
Ask God to give you divine appointments to share the truth about life with others, and that He would open the hearts and minds of those you encounter. |
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