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

by Trent Horn

Similarly, even if we could not care for children at risk of being aborted, it wouldn’t follow that it would be okay to kill them. Imagine firefighters being dispatched to a house fire where a family is trapped inside and the town mayor asks the firefighters, “If you save these people, where are they going to live, and who’s going to take care of them? If you won’t take responsibility for them, then we should just let them burn.” But firefighters aren’t responsible for feeding and sheltering fire victims; that is the responsibility of other groups like the Red Cross. Likewise, pro-life advocates are not responsible for feeding and sheltering children who would have been aborted; that is a job for social services and other charities that focus on providing people with a decent quality of life. Pro-life advocates have a responsibility only to ensure that people are allowed to live, though many pro-life advocates do support charities that help people attain a decent quality of life.