RE: The reason religion is so powerful
June 19, 2021 at 9:40 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2021 at 11:01 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(June 19, 2021 at 8:11 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: If you use force to prevent a robbery it's, wait for it, use of force. Even if you think abortion is murder, making it illegal is still forcing women to give birth against their will. It is what it is. If you're not comfortable with the language, maybe don't support forcing women to give birth against their will.
I'm comfortable with language that is accurate, which this is not.
Preventing an abortion is not equal to inducing labor, agreed? If this isn't obvious consider that no matter how much force we use to prevent an abortion, it doesn't prevent a miscarriage. And conversely, in stillbirths, a spontaneous abortion doesn't prevent giving birth to a stillborn child.
Therefore, we can conclude that these two variables are dissociated from one another. I am neither preventing a birth by allowing an abortion, nor am I forcing a birth by preventing an abortion. To the contrary, the more force we use to prevent abortions, the more likely we are to cause a miscarriage, thereby preventing a birth.
All of this is obvious in my robbery analogy. Believing that I'm forcing you into poverty by not allowing you to commit a robbery is a misattribution of the events. It's quite literally an argument from the heap, a slippery slope argument, which is a logical fallacy.