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The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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The person getting an abortion isn't thinking on the debate when life begins. That issue was likely answered in school by the pro-abortion tone.
The way to teach (at the last moment) that you have a person being aborted is through the sonogram.
How do we get past the socio-political motives of people who are most interested in the political gains and societal changes obtained by promotion of abortion? There may be a small number of people who are concerned about the starting point of life, but mostly the pro-abortion is about sacrificing a baby for promotion of social change.Last edited by mikewhitney; 05-16-2019, 10:07 AM.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostAccess to better medical care has resulted in the lowest rates of unintended pregnancies and abortions since the 1970's. If pro-lifers are truly concerned about the abortion rate they should concern themselves with womens access to medical care such as planned parenthood.
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In light of your statement here, Carpe...
Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostOK - I'm going to give this a shot - in a new thread with a clean start. My request, if you are going to join this discussion, is that it be kept civil and respectful. That means no name calling, no insults, and no taunting emojis. I'd also like to request that people leave the hyperbolic language that both sides tend to use about this topic "at the door." No "Big Abortion," no "abortion mills," no accusations of misogyny or religious fanaticism.
Originally posted by JimL View PostIf pro-lifers are truly concerned about the abortion rate they should concern themselves with womens access to medical care such as planned parenthood.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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ITT, pro-lifers complaining that people supporting/getting an abortion don't believe it's a human life.
We get it. Some of us were hoping to discuss other possible solutions."Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
Hear my cry, hear my shout,
Save me, save me"
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Originally posted by guacamole View PostITT, pro-lifers complaining that people supporting/getting an abortion don't believe it's a human life.
We get it. Some of us were hoping to discuss other possible solutions.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostPerhaps a large part of the problem is that "one side" has allowed - even championed - Planned Parenthood to be the face of "choice", and there appears to be no effort on their part for neutrality on the "choice".
As long as one side recognizes Planned Parenthood as "the authority" on "choice", the battle lines remain fixed.
Am I overlooking another major entity or force for the "choice" side that is less "pro abortion"?
Change the discussion, and you will change the battle lines.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostThis just isn't true. Like RvW, the current debate isn't when "life begins", it's when that life becomes a "person". You need to modify your argument to reflect that.
1) The current debate/war is rooted in a disagreement on when a human person begins.
2) There has been essentially zero progress to aligning the opposing views on when life begins for the last 50 years.
3) There is no basis for believing those views will be aligned in the next 50 yearsThe ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostBattle lines only remain "fixed" if we permit them to be "fixed." As my Dad used to day, "it takes two to tango."
Change the discussion, and you will change the battle lines.That's what
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostI think any "solution" that ignores the elephant in the room -- that abortion always terminates a human life -- is going to have limited and temporary success.
1) The current debate/war is rooted in a disagreement on when a human person begins.
2) There has been essentially zero progress to aligning the opposing views on when life begins for the last 50 years.
3) There is no basis for believing those views will be aligned in the next 50 yearsThe ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by mikewhitney View PostThe person getting an abortion isn't thinking on the debate when life begins. That issue was likely answered in school by the pro-abortion tone.
The way to teach (at the last moment) that you have a person being aborted is through the sonogram.
How do we get past the socio-political motives of people who are most interested in the political gains and societal changes obtained by promotion of abortion? There may be a small number of people who are concerned about the starting point of life, but mostly the pro-abortion is about sacrificing a baby for promotion of social change.
To repeat:
1) The current debate/war is rooted in a disagreement on when a human person begins.
2) There has been essentially zero progress to aligning the opposing views on when life begins for the last 50 years.
3) There is no basis for believing those views will be aligned in the next 50 yearsThe ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostIn light of your statement here, Carpe...
I'll politely and humbly offer that this statement...
...is unnecessarily argumentative and insulting. Many of us "pro-lifers" are, indeed, very much involved in women's health, and the suggestion that the largest abortion provider in the world should be the solution is rather polarizing.
Yes - I wish people would stand back from the battle long enough to look at the meta issue - but that is almost impossible to do. Post after post, people simply seem to want to get back into the fray and start flailing away with the same kinds of arguments that have been failing now for 50+ years - on both sides. I'm trying to get people to step back, even if for a second, and see the futility of that energy use, and ask themselves, "can we approach this differently?"
In other words - I'm not trying to have a discussion about abortion itself. I'm trying to have a discussion about how we approach the abortion issue - how we engage in the discussion.
Maybe my thread title is misleading?Can you change it to "A Civil Discussion about the "Great Abortion War" ?The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostUnfortunately, any "solution" that ignore the obvious will always be one-sided at best simply because the other side will never agree with the premise that there's a problem to be solved.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostBut how does one move from a fixed position that the baby is a person, and that any discussion of abortion MUST start with that premise? Do we just concede that in some cases it isn't? That's simply not tenable.
Would you agree that is a natural, logical conclusion from those three points?The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostUnfortunately, any "solution" that ignore the obvious will always be one-sided at best simply because the other side will never agree with the premise that there's a problem to be solved."Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
Hear my cry, hear my shout,
Save me, save me"
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