Ezerwoman's Blog

Do you have a friend, professor, or neighbor who claims to take the moral high-road, yet stubbornly defends abortion?  Take a breath, and keep your composure.  Don’t make statements; rather, ask questions.

Mike Adams (Townhall.com 3/7/2011) offers 35 questions he gleaned in large part from Scott Klusendorf (www.prolifetraining.com).  Here are 18 of those questions:

1. If abortion is not murder because the fetus is not a person then why make it “safe, legal, and rare”?
2. If a woman were raped and got pregnant, which one would you kill: a) the baby, b) the rapist, or c) both?
3. Are you comfortable with the fact that “a” is the only answer you  may choose according to (the present interpretation of) the Constitution?
4. Abortion advocates frequently focus on the size of the fetus.  Why is that relevant?
5. Do tall people have more rights than short people?
6. Is murder permissible when the victim is sleeping and hence unaware of the surrounding environment?
7. Should a woman abort a baby because it may be expensive and time-consuming to raise a child to adulthood?
8. Should a woman be able to kill a puppy because it may be expensive and time consuming to feed and care for a dog?
9. What gives human beings more value than dogs?
10. Who do we expect better behavior from humans than from dogs?
11. Which one of these is not like the others: a) Adult, b) toddler, c) unborn baby, d) dog?
12. Does secular humanism assume that humans are inherently different from other life forms?  If not, why is it called humanism?
13. Can a thoroughly materialistic (or Darwinist or secular humanist) worldview explain how or why anything has value or a right to life?
14. Does the “right to choose” come from man or from God?
15. If man grants rights can he also take them away?
16. It has been said (by three Supreme Court Justices) that “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”  Does that mean a woman can define a baby’s rights out of existence because a woman is more powerful than a baby?
17. Or does that mean a man can define a woman’s rights out of existence because, in a patriarchal society, a man is more powerful than a woman?
18. Rights often confer power.  Should power also confer rights?

A long time ago, I learned the wisdom of asking questions.  Questions don’t condemn.  They just help people think.

I want to be a thinking person, don’t you?  (Thanks Mike!  Thanks Scott!)

(Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina and author of Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts “Womyn” On Campus.  Scott Klusendorf is a Summit Ministries faculty member and vibrant pro-life advocate.)