Marshal, on a recent post of his at his website (and no doubt, many, many other anti-abortion activists): "There is no need to abort. EVER..."
In addition to Marshal, he had amongst his supporters/commenters a man who said that people who defend the medical procedure of abortion were "Molech-worshiping ghouls."
These people are bona fide anti-abortion zealots. It really should NOT be a viable medical option, according to these men. My questions to their type...
1. So, you recognize that girls as young as ten (and younger, of course) have been raped, I suppose?
2. Do you recognize that some ten year olds have gotten pregnant as a result?
3. Do you recognize that a child's body is not prepared to give birth?
4. Do you recognize the trauma that would be involved in having a ten year old girl go through that process?
5. You're opposed to an abortion even under that set of circumstances?
6. If so, what sort of monster are you?
7. Would you truly sacrifice these children on the altar of anti-abortion worship?
"Do not give any of your children
to be sacrificed to Molech,
for you must not profane the name of your God."
Leviticus 18
Molech-Worshiping ghouls, indeed.
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"Just because a girl can get pregnant, though, doesn't mean she can
safely deliver a baby. The pelvis does not fully widen until the late
teens, meaning that young girls may not be able to push the baby through
the birth canal.
The results are horrific,
said Wall and Thomas, who have both worked in
Africa treating women in the aftermath of such labors.
Girls may labor
for days;
many die.
Their babies often don't survive labor either.
The women and girls who do survive often develop fistulas, which are
holes between the vaginal wall and the rectum or bladder. When the
baby's head pushes down and gets stuck, it can cut portions of the
mother's soft tissue between its skull and her pelvic bones. As a
result, the tissue dies, and a hole forms. Feces and urine then leak
through the hole and out of the vagina. Women with fistulas are often
divorced and shunned. And young girls are at higher risk."
https://www.livescience.com/19584-10-year-birth.html
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Carrying on, then...
Most people would grant that in my example of a pregnant 10 year old who
is pregnant as a result of rape that abortion should be allowed. This
includes, I believe, most anti-abortion thinkers
["The most widely accepted reason for performing abortions, with little
difference in support depending on the timing, is when the woman's life
is endangered: 83% think this should be legal in the first trimester and
75% in the third." ~Gallup]
They recognize
that would be wrong to force that 10 year old to have that baby. Good
for them. But why are they willing to make that exception?
Suppose,
for instance, that instead of getting pregnant as a result of rape,
that somehow magically that 10 year old suddenly had a two-year-old baby
holding it in her arms, as a result of rape. Now she has a
two-year-old. Would anyone anywhere support the notion of killing that 2
year old?
No. Of course not.
Why is that?
It's
because most of us recognize there is a fundamental difference between a
two-year-old baby and a two-day-old zygote or a 2 week old fetus.
Both
are on the human life spectrum, BUT, the one IS indisputably fully a human indisputably deserving of a right to life, while the
two-day-old zygote is not fully a human. It's literally a human zygote.
And that is a significant, significant difference.
8. Do you recognize that there are huge differences (especially/specifically in terms of any rights we might consider/a presumed right to life) in a two day old zygote, a three week old blastocyst, a five week old embryo, a ten week old fetus and a two month old baby?
9. Or do you think that, as far as rights go, that a zygote and a baby are pretty much exactly equivalent?
10. IF you think that a zygote and a baby are equivalent, do you think that all those people (the vast majority of us) who'd be supportive of the ten year old rape victim getting an abortion (if that was the family's choice) are monstrous to support such a case?
11. Do you recognize that probably most people would find the position that a ten year old rape victim being forced to have a possibly deadly pregnancy to be a monstrous position to hold? Can you understand why?
12. If you think that a zygote and a birthed baby are the same (as far as a right to life is concerned) do you recognize that this is only an opinion that you can't prove, and not an established fact?
