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Tall Man, Short Hair
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Date: December 24, 2017 05:09PM
Eric K Wrote:
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> I guess I am injecting a bit of politics here. I
> had breakfast last week with an evangelical. He
> commented he will never vote for a Democrat
> because they support abortion. If we were living
> in Alabama he would of voted for Roy Moore.
> Sigh.... This is a well educated individual. I
> am not overly optimistic.
While the extreme partisans among us will insist, "Your vote for [Candidate X] shows you enthusiastically endorse [the worst evils suspected of Candidate X]," holding our nose to vote for the lesser of two evils is a very American thing to do. In real life, you find an accused pedophile a greater evil than a candidate who will work to support abortion. I'm not sure you're able to understand why any reasonable person would disagree with you. Perhaps you believe no reasonable person would.
If you're interested, here's a thread on Twitter I saw a few days ago that explains one man's journey from pro-choice to pro-life in a series of tweets.
https://twitter.com/NaughtyDerek/status/944043313010827266The science of the matter is sufficient reason for concern with many pro-lifers. This is not a simple clump of cells. It's nascent human life in its most fragile and vulnerable form. From the moment of conception, it has its own unique DNA. In a civil society that claims the most vulnerable among us deserve protection a basic human right, easy abortion (which is overwhelmingly used as another form of birth control for the convenience of the mother) is a glaring inconsistency. Dismissing your Evangelical friend as somehow unenlightened for his position rings a bit like, "if you oppose slavery, don't own one."
And there's no need to inject religion in this discussion either. On a purely secular, ethical, and scientific foundation, it's difficult to support an abortion-at-any-time-for-any-reason position.
http://www.prolifehumanists.org/secular-case-against-abortion/