Advanced Apologetics: Bodily Autonomy & More
Join Josh Brahm as he dives deep into the difficult questions regarding abortion. Have you been stumped with how to respond to bodily autonomy or sovereign zone arguments? Then this is the workshop for you!
| Date: | January 20, 2018 |
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| Time: | 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
| Event: | SFLA National Conference East Coast |
| Sponsor: | Students for Life of America |
| Venue: | FBC Glenarden Event Center |
| Location: | 600 Watkins Park Drive Upper Marlboro, MD |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
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How do you get someone to change their mind about something?
When I’ve had long conversations about abortion, I have often gone through a process of figuring out any possible creative way to communicate my idea or argument in a way that the other person might actually receive. I have found that forcing someone to argue against their own unfair arguments is the most efficient way to help someone realize that their arguments are actually unfair.
I provide four examples of unfair pro-choice rhetoric, and the ways I turn the tables.
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Editor’s Note (4/17/24): There are two major problems with the meme this article uses as an example. First, it straw mans the pro-choice view; this is the logic problem explained in the article. Second, it’s derisive toward the pro-choice view it fails to understand; this is a tone problem. Some versions of the “your body/not your body” meme don’t have the tone problem and are used by pro-lifers respectfully and courteously, though all versions have the logic problem.
“My body, my choice” is possibly the most common slogan in defense of abortion right now and an embarrassing number of pro-life people completely misunderstand it. Consider the following popular meme:
Hilarious right? Aren’t pro-choice people stupid? Aren’t they logic-impaired?
No. Please stop.
To what is “my body” referring in the “my body, my choice” slogan? Pro-life people far too often incorrectly assume that it is the body of the unborn. If that was the case, then yes, it would be a dumb thing to say. Let’s call this the Scientifically Ignorant View. That is almost never what pro-choice people mean. They mean the parts of the woman’s body that are affected by pregnancy, such as her uterus, vagina, ovaries, etc. Those are indisputably her body parts and pregnancy affects them.
The pro-life mind is naturally inclined to be focused on the unborn, and understandably so. They are being killed daily by the thousands. Almost nothing justifies killing a human person. But to most pro-choice people, even if the unborn is a human person, women have the right to kill the unborn if they are inside her body. This is the Bodily Rights View. Shouting that the unborn is a human being does nothing to respond to the Bodily Rights View. Absolutely nothing.