- Anti-abortionists are so cruel that they insist on showing hideous pictures of dead babies.
Answer:
What is hideous is not the pictures themselves, but the reality they depict.
Pictures challenge our denial of the horrors of abortion. If something is too horrible to look at, perhaps it is too horrible to condone.
Nothing could be more relevant to the discussion of something than that which shows what it really is.
It is the pro-choice position, not the pro-life position, that is cruel.
- Pro-lifers don’t care about women, and they don’t care about babies once they’re born.
Answer:
It is possible to point out an injustice even when one does not provide the solution. People could say slavery was wrong even if they did not open their homes to a slave. A man can say it is wrong for his neighbor to beat his wife, even if he isn’t in a position to give her a home.
The statement that pro-lifers do not care is totally false.
Pro-lifers are actively involved in caring for “unwanted” children and the other “disposable people” in society.
It is abortion providers who do not provide support for women choosing anything but abortion.
- The anti-abortionists are a bunch of men telling women what to do.
Answer:
More women than men oppose abortion.
The greater majority of prolife workers are women
Men are the major source of advocacy for abortion, telling women what to do.
Men are entitled to take a position on abortion.
Of women who have had abortions, far more are pro-life activists than pro-choice activists.
- Anti-abortionists talk about the sanctity of life, yet they favour capital punishment.
Answer:
Not all pro-lifers favour capital punishment.
Capital punishment is rooted in a respect for innocent human life.
There is a vast difference between punishing a convicted murderer and an innocent child.
- Anti-abortion fanatics break the law, are violent, and disrupt abortion clinics.
Rescuing should not be condemned without understanding the reasons behind it.
Peaceful involvement is consistent with the belief that the unborn are human beings.
The facts themselves make abortion an emotional issue, since abortion kills children.
The pro-choice position relies on emotionalism while the pro-life position relies on truth and logic.
The pro-life position is based on documented facts and empirical evidence, which many pro-choice advocates ignore or distort.