Pro-Choice is Pro-Murder: Why I Do Not Support Abortion

And the fifth demon is he who showed the children of men the smiting of an embryo in the womb, so that it might die.
- Enoch 69:12.

I woke up today with a desire to tear the American Left a new one. And what better opportunity than to address the highly controversial issue known as abortion? You see, if there is one thing that I dislike, it is hypocrisy and a disregard for the Truth as confirmed by scientific fact. Now the American Right is equally guilty of this transgression what with Young Earth Creationism and the like, but the difference is that most rightist lunatics are virtually harmless. They are on the decline, rapidly losing power, and will practically disappear from the American political landscape once they die off. I can address them, but there is really no point. Most of them are simpleminded, uneducated yokels on the lower end of the economic spectrum who do not even warrant a response. Doing so would be akin to calling out your senile old grandfather when he says something incredibly rude or stupid at the dinner table. You might as well just hold your peace.

But the American Left is our future. They are the policymakers of tomorrow, the future politicians, and the ones who are going to replace the rightist oldsters as they pass away. As such, they are the true threats worth addressing because their actions are going to have greater implications for the world I live in and the world that my descendants are going to inherit. And if there is one thing I dislike, it is bearded, flannel wearing faggots and Prius-driving little shits lecturing me on "tolerance" and how they are so much more "progressive" than their slaveowning ancestors simply because they recycle and support Cecil the Lion, all the while ungratefully standing upon the foundation that their predecessors whom they hate so much laid for them, and all the while foolishly supporting the great social injustice known as abortion.

All that is relevant to the abortion debate are the facts. And since science is the only discipline that has demonstrated itself to be objective time and time again, it is the scientific facts--particularly biology--alone that are relevant to the topic of abortion. This is especially true when legality (or lackof) is brought up, since the scope of the law is concerned only with that which is concrete and verifiable, as science is the only discipline which meets these criteria. And just as St. Augustine of Hippo writes, "Fine stye does not make something true, nor has a man a wise soul because he has a handsome face and well-chosen eloquence," so neither the finest rhetoric in the world nor every appeal-to-emotion that the Left has to offer can change a single iota of confirmed scientific fact. The facts are true whether we like them or not. And in the words of St. Basil the Great, "What is not fact must be followed by a denial; what is fact must be confirmed with assent." Thus as one dedicated to affirming the truth, the facts compel me to adopt the Pro-Life position.

#1) Life Within the Womb is Alive

This fact is pretty self-evident--otherwise we wouldn't call it a "life" to begin with--but life begins at conception, which Stedman's Medical Dictionary (28th Edition, 2006) defines as the "[f]ertilization of oocyte by a sperm." Pregnancy may not technically occur until implantation, and exact terminology (ex, replacing conception with "fertilization") may change with the times, but the undisputable biological fact is that life begins the moment the process as outlined in the above dictionary occurs, regardless of what you want to name it. Furthermore, there are three to four biological requirements for life--growth, metabolism, reproduction, and adaptation--and life within the womb meets each of these requirements with flying colors. Hence life begins at conception, the moment fertilization occurs. Thus likening opposition to abortion with opposition to birth-control is logically erroneous. Abortion is the termination of a life, while the latter merely prevents a life from being made. Life within the womb is not merely a "potential" life like the sperm cells that are expelled via male masturbation, or the ovum a woman sheds every month during her period, but rather it is a Life itself, a living organism.

#2) Life Within the Womb is Human

"Like begets like" in the words of my anthropology textbook ("Exploring Biological Anthropology, 3rd Edition"). This is one of the most fundamental observations in all of nature. It means that the offspring of an organism is the same kind of organism as the ones who begat it. In other words, life within the womb is human because it has human parents. It is a human life. It has all of the genetic properties of a human like human DNA, and thus from a purely biological standpoint--the only standpoint relevant to the abortion debate--is just as human as you and I. The only difference is that it is in a different stage of its lifecycle. But to deny that it is human because of this is like denying that senior citizens are human simply because they are elderly. An infant is not the same as a child nor is a young adult the same as an old person, but the fact remains that they are all equally human. To deny this is absurd. Yet it is precisely what abortionists do with the unborn. Thus likening life within the womb to an animal life, hair follicles, or some other non-human life is erroneous because none of those lives are human lives. They do not have human parents nor do they possess the genetic properties of a human. Furthermore, dehumanizing the unborn as just "a bundle of cells" is likewise erroneous because Cell Theory affirms that ALL life is composed of cells, meaning that such a statement is virtually meaningless. What matters is the exact nature and properties of that "bundle of cells," which biology affirms is human. Just because you cannot understand it does not make it untrue; it just means that you are guilty of the Argument from Personal Incredulity.

#3) Life Within the Womb is its Own Human

Finally, life within the womb is not only human but also its own human. At conception ("[f]ertilization of oocyte by a sperm") an important process called crossing over occurs. This means that since the number of chromosomes in gametes (sperm and ovum, the human sex-cells) is only half as much as somatic cells, the two halves come together to form a new whole distinct from both parents via recombination. In other words, the unborn are a distinct organism from their parents. They are similar in that they are human and possess many genetic similarities ("like begets like"), but they are still different entities, as DNA would confirm. Thus the unborn are NOT merely another "part" of their mother like an arm or a foot, nor are they "the same" as virtually every other cell in the body which contains an exact copy of its host's DNA. Rather, the unborn are their own individual organisms distinct from their parents, complete with their own unique set of human DNA. Hence politicizing abortion as a matter of "female choice" and "my body" is logically fallacious because abortion targets not the body of the mother but rather the body of another human that just happens to dwell within its mother's body. Dwelling inside of something does not equate to being something anymore than driving a car makes you a "part" of that car like a wheel or seatbelt. Furthermore, your "choice" ends where the rights of another individual begin, so terminating another human life just because it happens to be a burden to your body is akin to murdering welfare recipients just because they are a burden to the bodies of hardworking men everywhere in the form of taxes.

Pro-Choice is Pro-Murder: Why I Do Not Support Abortion

So there are the three undisputable facts as confirmed by biology. Add them together and it means that the unborn are their own individual human lives like you, I, and every other person on this planet. And thus I'll finally address the elephant in the room: if life is a basic human right--and biology has confirmed that the unborn are human--then why aren't we as a society willing to extend that same right to the unborn? Upon what logical basis do we justify witholding the right to life from an entire class of human beings? Because it certainly is not science. In fact, abortion is rather simple when you think about it: if we as a society have affirmed that human life is sacred and ought to be preserved, and biology has affirmed that the unborn are human lives like you and I, then abortion should be condemned in the same way that we condemn murder.

Essentially every abortionist argument seeks to either avoid this truth or lie about it. They avoid it through politicizing abortion as a matter of "choice," much in the same way that the Confederacy politicized slavery as a matter of state rights, because they knew that their position was wholly opposed to the truth.

Pro-Choice is Pro-Murder: Why I Do Not Support Abortion

They avoid it by appealing to emotion, exploiting the difficulties of poverty and the undeniable social ills that often lead to unwanted pregnancies. They avoid it through rhetoric, crafting seemingly clever but hollow arguments backed by weaponized political correctness. And finally they avoid it through indoctrinating women with a cultural marxist concept of "the struggle." Give them a common villain like "White heterosexual males" or "the Patriarchy," then politicize abortion as "the struggle" against them, and it is amazing really how many women will fall for it. Humans are gullible creatures. Thus the abortionists have to avoid the truth because in reality they have no genuine argument. That is why their position is politicized as a matter of "choice." The Pro-Choice position is nothing but clever rhetoric. They try to lie about the truth through arguments such as the ones I earlier debunked, all of which misrepresent and/or fall short of the above three biological facts in one way or another. Stick to those three facts and virtually every abortionist argument can be easily debunked by anyone with even a 7th grade understanding of biology. And finally they lie about the truth through villifying their opposition. They will resort to ad-hominems--attacks on personal character and/or conduct--which are fallacious since the truth is the truth regardless of the voice speaking it. They will say things like "You are not a woman, you do not understand!" To which I would retort: You were never aborted, so neither would you understand! All in all, they will do everything EXCEPT acknowledge the truth and/or address the logic of your arguments.

Hence I see no reason to resort to violence, as their forefathers of the Enlightenment have in the form of Robespierre, Che Guavara, Mao Zedong, and every other violent despot whose legacy can be summed up in the countless failed "progressive" revolutions of the 20th century. The Truth does not need violence. Violence is the product of liars, liars who are insecure because they know that their lies are false. The Truth on the other hand supports itself. It is stable and firm, and it always prevails in the end. It is how Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, and Mother Theresa were able to conquer the world; it is how Christianity was able to conquer the Roman Empire through nothing but the blood of its martyrs, culminating in St. Constantine's conversion and the Edict of Milan. And I know that I am in good company with true social activists such as Dr. Alveda King who are also opposed to abortion.

Pro-Choice is Pro-Murder: Why I Do Not Support Abortion

I like to call abortion the Devil's sacrament because it is a corruption of the Eucharistic injunction to "Take, eat, this is my body"

Pro-Choice is Pro-Murder: Why I Do Not Support Abortion

...with the abortionist mantra of "This is my body! This is my choice!"

Pro-Choice is Pro-Murder: Why I Do Not Support Abortion

The former brings about eternal life and theosis while the latter brings about death and destruction.

But getting back to the topic at hand, I have appealed to nothing but the objective facts of biology and a morality which our society holds universally--namely that all human life is sacred and ought to be preserved--in order to support my position. I did not resort to clever rhetoric, appeals to emotion, ad-hominems, nor my own religious sensibilities (except when specifying that this is my *personal* opinion). I only affirmed to the facts. And as one committed to following the Truth wherever it may lead, I am among the ones who walk away from Omelas. I am Pro-Life.

Essentially the abortion debate can be summed up in a single question: are we willing as a society to sanction the systematic execution of an entirely innocent, untried minor whose only crime was its very existence as a solution to our society's problems?

The Pro-Choice community has responded with a resounding affirmation, and thus I have taken the liberty to rename them Pro-Murder. I reiterate, neither the cleverest rhetoric in the world nor all of the appeals-to-emotion that the Left can muster will change the facts; it is just a clever way to avoid the true underlying question at hand. Those who respond Yes for whatever reason are ethical utilitarians, willing to sacrifice the wellbeing of the few for many, affirming that the ends justify the means. The greatest example of this is the classic Pro-Choice excuse of "It is better to abort [murder] a child than to allow it to grow up unloved." But I do not believe in such ethical utilitarianism. The ends do not justify the means, as evil cannot be resolved with evil. Abortion may be the product of grave social ills which we are long overdue to start addressing (this means you Republicans), but it cannot be resolved with another great social ill like abortion. Two wrongs will never make a right, and no amount of rhetoric will change that.

I do not care at all if the Left labels me a sexist or a misogynistic--I know that I love women, including the unborn females who are victims of abortion--I do not care if they label me a racist--I am Mexican-American, how could I be a racist?--and I do not care if they say that I do not understand--my mother had me at 15 or 16, if anyone understands it is me. The opinions of Omelas do not concern me. If fitting in and/or being viewed favorably by them means sacrificing my moral integrity, then fuck it. I do not want to fit in or be viewed favorably by the blind.

Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it; right is right even if no one is doing it.

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  • You start with an religious quote and yet religion is very pro killing children. Think of the first born sons of egypt for example. Or davids first born. In the old testament alone, plenty of times are children killed for the sins of their fathers. So why do people think abortion should be different?

    Killing children for what their parents have done has long standing tradition in the bible, torha and koran. Abortion is just continuing that trend.

    I love the picture you linked about "not your body, not your choice" because it makes the obvious, well more obvious. Someone else is inside your body, not being able to exist on their own.
    Ask any doctor, babies are parasites.
    https://dai.ly/x1lqo71

    So should we apply the same principle to other parasites, like a tapeworm. Should we be obliged to comply with animal rights when dealing with a tapeworm. Should we even remove it, just because it's inconvenient? Literally everything you said could be applied to tapeworms or other parasites

    • Interesting point about the tapeworm.

    • A tapeworm is not a human so unless you apply to a radically egalitarian worldview where animal lives are equally sacred to human lives, you are not making any point. Again, biological fact #2. Furthermore, I reiterate: welfare recipients are an inconvenience to the bodies of hardworking men everywhere via taxation. Should they warrant the right to kill them? I would think not; the right to our body ends where the rights of another human being begin. Nobody ever said that pregnancy was easy or convenient, but enduring it is better than the alternative which is to murder the unborn. At least in most cases despite how inconvenient it is, nobody will die. Furthermore, the purpose of the OT was to prepare humanity for the New, which does not allow such things. It was necessary to create a world where the Incarnation could occur, plus many of the Church Fathers did not interpret those stories as 100% literal historical fact.

    • I don't really understand how you can be against welfare but so vehemently against abortion simultaneously. Who's taxes are going to support mothers unable to support their child financially? Who's taxes will fund the adoption services for children who's parent (s) can't support them? If you're so against abortion, you're going to have to accept that your money will be going towards raising the children who cannot be supported by their parents alone.

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  • We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred... If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
    Indeed, some women, will argue that an unborn is not an actual human being, I wonder what they were before they were conceived into this world, abortions must be regulated to cases of forced sex, rape, underage pregnancy. Most women who support this, have never aborted a child in their lives. And days like these I wonder, when a life is killed even before its born, is a world like this, really worth saving?

    • I had an abortion last year. I also have a three year old daughter, and I completely support other women's choice to do what they feel is the right thing at the time. People out there who like to sit back a judge people they have never met should simply be thankful they have never had to make that decision , or be in a position where they had to. I regretted not keeping my baby almost immediately, I still do, but I never would I tell anyone that it's wrong, nobody knows what they are facing.

    • @AperolSpritz and do you still support it?

    • I support the right to choose.

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  • "In other words, you are willing to justify the systematic slaughter of an entirely innocent untried minor whose only crime was its very existence? Why is it that you 'choicers' are so utterly silent about the true nature of the act, namely that another living human per the objective facts of biology is being slaughtered?"

    So you do realize a fetus in the beginning of a pregnancy isn't living, as defines by science? Living things move, respirate, adapt, grow, reproduce, excrete waste, and use/intake nutrients. a fetus in the early stages does not do that, they are not living

  • Outlawing abortions won't make them stop. Teaching comprehensive sex education and give out birth control options like the pill and condoms lowers abortion rates. Also we have this thing in law called bodily autonomy. That means that we have the rights over our own bodies and how we use them. That's why even after a person dies or becomes brain dead, you can't just pull the plug and harvest their useable organs without their consent. By forcing a woman to provide life to someone that she doesn't want to, you're taking away her bodily autonomy. You can disagree with abortions as much as you want but it's not going to stop them.

    • Bodily autonomy just lends more credence to the Pro-Life position since it begs the question of why the unborn are not being granted this right if objective biology has confirmed that they are human beings like you and I. The right to bodily autonomy ends where the rights of another individual begin, so wouldn't the fairer thing to do be to force the woman to give birth? At least then nobody will die--even if they have to endure some difficulty--whereas abortion causes one individual to die. The Pro-Life position literally does preserve the most life, even if it is imperfect.

    • Of they can't live outside the womb, then forcing the woman to carry until then is taking away here bodily autonomy. It's the same argument as to why you can't force someone to donate organs or blood to a dying person if they don't want to. It's their body their choice. You can't force her to provide life to something that she doesn't want to.

    • Abortion is not merely the suspension of providing life to someone as in the case of refusing to donate organs, but rather is the deliberate destruction of another human life. And the right to bodily autonomy ends where the rights of another individual begin, in this case, the human within the womb. Furthermore, that human would not be inside of her were it not for her own decision to have sex, the sole exception being rape.

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  • That was too much to read there but I am, and will always be, pro-life. Abortion is barbaric. The left is forced to argue that a fetus isn't a "viable" human being, even though that logic is lacking. To do otherwise would be to admit to something very terrible, that you support state sponsored infanticide. With as many social advancements as we've made in our society, this is one area were we bring shame upon ourselves by taking the moral low ground.

    • why can't you just mind your own business. who freaking cares what somebody else does. they want to terminate their baby, fine, no skin off my nose.

    • @LiveFreeorDieHard Would you apply that same standard to American Slavery, discrimination against the LGBT community, and racial minorities? Unless you answer Yes, you are a hypocrite unwilling to follow your views to their logical conclusion. If abortion is wrong--and it is via the objective, indisputable facts of biology combined with the morality which our nation holds universally--then we have a duty to combat it otherwise we are guilty of the evil of inaction.

    • Damn.

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  • Personally I support pro-choice for different reasons but only to a certain extent. I think it is right to have one in the first trimester and I'm iffy about the second. Of course I believe if the baby is threatening the life of the mother then she can have an abortion, say an ectopic pregnancy, neither the baby or the momma is going to make it out of that so why allow two to die when one can survive?
    If a woman cannot support the baby or herself then she is ruining two lives which to me justifies her having an abortion if she does it early where it's merely a little group of cells that has the potential to become a human but at that stage is far from it. One could argue that contraceptives are abortions as well because you're terminating the potential of creating life, but that's another story.
    I do not support abortions in some cases due to how traumatizing the procedure is, mentally and physically as well as how some women use abortion as a form of a contraceptive because it's just not good for your body.
    Honestly I'd rather have a baby (in some cases) aborted than put into the horrid adoption system in the US. Growing up without love and care is true torture and is the worst thing anyone can experience. I'd rather have someone be dead than experience that pain especially as a growing child. Of course some adopted children live happy lives but how many don't? Personally I could never do that to my child.

    • I addressed most of your points such as "bundle of cells" and contraception in the Take (so I'm guessing you missed those parts). But I disagree with you that abortion should be a solution to poverty and/or the broken adoption system in the US. I am NOT an ethical utilitarian; to me the ends will never justify the means as evil cannot be resolved with more evil. I believe that those issues need to be addressed on their own apart from abortion which is another form of evil. Furthermore, LIVING itself even if it is a difficult, lousy life is still greater than being systematically slaughtered before you even have a chance to be born. Everyone deserves a shot in life, even if the life they inherit is lousy.

  • This was a very well written explanation of the pro-life position. I was already pro-life before I read this exposition but your arguments have made me feel even more strongly about the rights of the not yet born humans. Thank you for having the bravery to share an opinion that is not popular in a culture which is premised upon personal convenience.

  • Opinions are like assholes, but here is my story on abortion...

    Recently, I chose abortion. Until that point, I never knew exactly where I stood on the topic.

    I am 28 years old, have a child (with a manipulative fool), have a college degree, and I found out I was pregnant with my second child. The father of the second child was out of state and it would be difficult on both of us, plus the baby, and my son.

    Yes, I chose abortion and I do not regret it!

    I believe that the biggest issue I had were the "pro-life" idiots that chose to stand outside of an abortion clinic and scream about "murdering" babies, instead of offering guidance. I would have been open to talk to them until the point where I heard them scream, "why do blacks always have to kill?" ... I ALMOST LOST IT!!

    To top it off, I also found out that the state "funds" the "sidewalk counselors"! WTF? People have their priorities screwed up.

    I'm sure that there are people who choose abortion for financial reasons... Why can't the state "sponsor" those children? I don't know... it is fucked up.

    • In other words, you are willing to justify the systematic slaughter of an entirely innocent untried minor whose only crime was its very existence? Why is it that you 'choicers' are so utterly silent about the true nature of the act, namely that another living human per the objective facts of biology is being slaughtered?

    • #trustwomen

  • Still pro-choice

  • 1. Pro-Choice is not Pro-Murder. It's Pro-MAKING A DECISION.

    2. It's not a "living thing" until 13 weeks of gestation.

    3. Until the baby is born, it doesn't have it's own life to live.

    4. Even if the child is born, the fact that they are under the age of 5 years old shows they cannot make a decision.

    5. Sometimes people don't have any other option, but to abort.

    6. Unless you know what it's like to be a pregnant woman, and also have a very open and understanding mind, you're opinion on abortion doesn't matter.

    7. As horrible as this does sound, everyone dies at some point.

    8. If you knew ANYTHING about pregnancy, you'd realize that a fetus doesn't become it's own human body until AFTER it's delivered. It's attached to the mother.

    9. Most abortions usually happen before it even develops into a fetus anyways.

    10. I'm done. I hope you now finally get it.

  • All those words and yet, I still don't give a shit 😂

  • I'm very pro death. I support euthanasia. If you can't love and support a child then don't have one. Being raised without love and comfort is not something I would wish on anyone.

    No one is born a bad person you become bad when you're denied happiness and love.

    • In other words, you are an ethical utilitarian. I do not agree with your viewpoint, but I can respect you for at least being logically consistent in it whereas most abortionists are unwilling to acknowledge the true implications of their worldview.

    • I am. Thank you

    • ... so whats the difference between this and the answers all the women responded with saying they had a choice to do what they wanted to a zygote that they didn't want?

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  • It's okay for your God to order Joshua to slaughter all the children of Jericho, but you're not okay with a woman choosing to end an unwanted pregnancy.

    If you don't like abortion then don't have one. You cannot force your opinion of abortion on other people. Just like I can't force my opinion of religion being child abuse on you.

  • You're not making a good case of yourself opening with a religious statement.
    Religions are known to make irrational statements all the time.