Persuasive Pro Life: How to Talk about Our Culture's Toughest Issue

by Trent Horn

To demonstrate this, admit for the sake of the argument that you are as bad as the fighter says you are. You can even maintain you are worse than what the critic claims. After admitting to being an awful person, simply ask how your badness justifies killing the unborn by abortion. For example, let’s say I had a chance to stand up for myself against the man at the Pasadena college, whom I’ll call John: John: How many children have you adopted? Me: How does that relate to whether abortion should be legal? John: You say abortion should be illegal and people should adopt unwanted children, but if you haven’t adopted any children, then you’re a hypocrite. Me: Let’s say you’re right that I am a hypocrite who will never adopt children. Let’s say further that I hate children, and I’m just an all-around bad guy. How do any of these character defects justify keeping it legal to kill children through abortion? John: They’re not children, they’re fetuses! (Now we’re back to the one question that matters most: “What are the unborn?”)