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Pro-Life Apologetics

Pro-Life Apologetics. March 22, 2006. Seven Ways to Reason an Argument Against Abortion. Ask questions, rather than declarative statements. 2. Concentrate on the kinds of abortion they oppose. You play “pro-abort” and get them to defend the pro-life side.

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Pro-Life Apologetics

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  1. Pro-Life Apologetics March 22, 2006

  2. Seven Ways to Reason an Argument Against Abortion • Ask questions, rather than declarative statements. • 2. Concentrate on the kinds of abortion they oppose. You play “pro-abort” and get them to defend the pro-life side. • 3. Give them a thought provoking quote. “If a mother can kill her own child, what’s keeping you from killing me, me from killing you? There’s nothing in between.” – Mother Theresa

  3. 4. Challenge others and be bold. Decide the time. Make them uncomfortable with their argument. “Most Germans neither aided or opposed the Nazis…” “If I can’t have you, no one can.” (showing the irrationality of choosing abortion over adoption.) 5. Tell Stories. 6. Change a critical remark into a thought-provoking one. Turn defense into offense. 7. Find common ground. Nobody really wants to see babies aborted. Abortion means we’ve failed women.

  4. **Humanize the baby, dehumanize abortion.**

  5. If someone says… “I’m personally opposed to abortion.” -Ask them why and have them defend their position. Compare this to slavery and people who were personally opposed to that but didn’t speak up at the time. “I’ve never experienced an abortion, so I don’t want to have an opinion on it.” -You don’t need to experience something to know that it is right or wrong.

  6. “Being pregnant will ruin a woman’s life.” -Women can function when they are pregnant. Most are not bed-ridden for 9 months. “If the baby is disabled, it will not be able to live a good life.” -What about the Holocaust and Nazi euthanization of “life unworthy of living”? Sometimes this might not be to keep the child from having a miserable life, but the parents, so they can avoid having to deal with the hardships that come with a disabled child.

  7. “What about rape?” -Rape is heinous violence. Abortion is heinous violence. Should one wrong be fixed with another wrong? Would a woman kill her baby after he or she is born when she realizes the baby is a product of rape? **Explain how the unborn are complete human beings. Can you kill human beings because of difficult circumstances?**

  8. The Science Behind It Biology textbooks have a consensus that life begins at conception. “Human development is a continuum that begins at fertilization.” A Zygote is NOT a fertilized egg because the egg and the sperm no longer exist. It is a new life. Life comes from life. If there is life at birth, then there is life 9 months leading up to birth. Some don’t consider the unborn “persons”, just “human beings.” There is a difference in public perception.

  9. Pro-Abortion Person Criteria: S.L.E.D. Size – Someone is not a person because he or she is smaller? What about people of shorter stature? Level of Development – Someone is not a person because he or she is less physically and mentally developed? Environment – The unborn is not a person because he or she is in a woman’s body? The unborn have their own DNA. Degree of Dependency – Someone is not a person because he or she can’t survive outside of the mother’s womb? Newborns can’t survive on their own, they need others to care for them.

  10. What We/They Say to Them/Us Us  Ourselves Us  Them Offensive Them  Us Them  Themselves Defensive

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