No, anti-abortionists speculate that life begins at different times. Nobody knows exactly when. But there's no doubt that life does begin, at some point, and that a baby is a baby, and a human being and person is the inevitable outcome. On that, they all agree.commonsense wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 11:50 pm IC,
My understanding is that anti-abortionists believe that life begins at conception, while pro-abortionists disagree.
Pro-abortionists simply don't know anything. They don't care. They don't even bother with the fine arguments about the "when," because any point they pick would end up inhibiting their choices at some point. They literally want a license to feign ignorance and claim a right to kill a baby right up to the point she exists the womb...and beyond, in many cases, as when they let viable early newborns die of deliberate neglect. And they do that.
They don't care, as long as nobody can tell them "NO."
Pro-abortionists can't "agree" a baby into being a person or "agree" her out of being one. What she is, she is.My question is do you think it matters to anti-abortionists, or to you, whether pro-abortionists agree or not?
It would be nice if pro-abortionists would come around; but if they did, they'd stop being pro-abortionists, wouldn't they?
Wrong both times. The majority of Americans (about 70%) think there should be at least some limit on murdering babies. Many of even those who would consent to first or second trimester abortions would wince at the thought of a third timester one, or of infanticide in the case of a viable premature birth. Very few would subborn murder the way pro-abortionists would like.The majority of Americans do not approve of Roe being overturned, but does their having that mindset bother you?
As for the "mindset," what "mindset" is that, that I should be worried about? The "mindset" not to kill babies? The "mindset" not to mistake an alleged (wrongly) opinion poll for a determinant of a child's status as a person? Would it be right to decide anybody's status as a person by what a particular lobby was willing to "agree to"?
I'm feeling pretty easy on all those accounts.
Yes. Meeting God. That really changes people. One thing that changes is they stop seeing other human beings as "conveniences" for them to use and discard, and they stop thinking that their selfish choices are the meaning of the universe. That really helps people become better human beings.And can you think of a strategy that might work to change the abortionists’ opinion?
Short of that, I think many of them are not willing to be convinced.