Do you think most pro-life people do a good job defending their position?

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I am pro-life, and generally speaking I think there are people on both sides of the abortion discussion that make poor arguments that actually hurt their side and make them look less educated or informed.
I am Lutheran, but my pro-life beliefs are not religiously based. I often hear people argue pro-life by bringing God and the Bible into it, and I find it profoundly frustrating because it further ties the abortion issue to a religion that (lets be honest) not all people believe in or want a part of. I feel like it opens the door for pro-choice individuals to write off the effort as ‘religious fanatics’.
Please vote the poll question, but share your opinion on how effective you think most pro-life arguments really are. (Feel free to disagree with me if you think religious perspective is very important to include)

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I don’t believe so but I’m also pro choice. 
In my experience it’s usually a religious argument, which religion has no place outside of an individual’s space. Your religion doesn’t belong in the laws and policies that impact my life etc that kind of thing, and if it’s not religious it’s usually guilt tripping. 
There’s been a couple of really good debates I’ve had with two people in this room who didn’t argue from an emotionally eliciting stance or with religion, and while it didn’t change my mind and Vice Versa I greatly respected that they saw the same stats I saw, understood them as reality, and had their own takes on what solutions there are. 
As a reminder, for any current commentators or future ones, it is against the app’s rules to use kill/murder in reference to abortion. Respect that. 
If you’re at all interested in what I develop my opinion off of here’s my list
 Peer Reviewed Abortion and  Contraceptive Statistics
•Fetal pain development:
https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/rcogfetalawarenesswpr0610.pdf
•Majority of women do not regret termination:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0128832#sec013
•Majority of abortions are before 13 weeks:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6311a1.htm
•59% of women terminating are already mothers:
https://www.guttmacher.org/report/characteristics-us-abortion-patients-2014
•Low income and minority women are at a higher risk for pregnancy and benefit the most from access to reproductive care:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338192/
•Planned parenthood is a crucial help to women across the country, making up a huge portion of providers for reproductive care:
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/09/08/quantifying-planned-parenthoods-critical-role-in-meeting-the-need-for-publicly-supported-contraceptive-care/
•Community health centers (while good) cannot withstand the weight of losing planned parenthood:
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/09/02/planned-parenthood-community-health-centers-and-womens-health-getting-the-facts-right/
•A 2010 study outlining how contraceptive care prevents unintended pregnancy/abortions/birth and lead to public saving with every dollar spent on contraceptive care:
https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/contraceptive-needs-2010.pdf
•When women have control over their reproductive decisions everyone does well:
https://www.guttmacher.org/report/social-and-economic-benefits-womens-ability-determine-whether-and-when-have-children

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I believe abortion is wrong because I believe life begins at conception and science backs that up 100%. It’s not a clump of cells. It’s a human being at its most vulnerable stage of life and people think because it can’t defend itself it shouldn’t have rights. Soon we’ll be “disposing” of elderly and sick people out of convenience. The people who defend abortion are refusing to see reality and are denying basic facts of nature.

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I'm pro life not only because I'm a Christian, but seriously, once the egg has been fertilized, it's its own set of DNA already. It's a life already. I don't really get pro choicers. They want choice and say everyone is entitled to choice, but what about the baby's choice? They rob them of their choice.

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Catholic. My grade 12 final research project was on abortion. I did so much reading your head would spin. I can base it off of religion obviously but also can base it off of knowledge. It’s just wrong.

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I am religious and my religion is a part of who I am. My views and opinions all stem from my religion. I don’t agree with abortion because it is essentially purposely taking somebody’s life because life begins at conception. There’s literally no other reason. I think it’s unethical and immoral and unfair. Why? Because it’s a person, an individual. So it always goes back to religion. If I wasn’t religious I don’t see why I would be pro life. If I didn’t believe that the embryo was an individual life that matters as much as the next person I wouldn’t cal myself pro life.

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Just as good of a job as pro-choicers do!

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I'm religious, but religion is not part of the reasonings unless it's in agreement with someone else statement.

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I think that most arguments are ineffective because they are arguing moot points. Scientifically we know when the first signs of real “life” are identified in an embryo, but that doesn’t matter when another persons opinion counteracts that. Scientific facts and personal opinions hardly ever coincide. I think what’s really important here is that we look historically at abortion. Before it was available safely, it was still happening. Haphazardly, horrifically, fatally, and shamefully. In a world where women have been made second class citizens for far too long, it is INSANELY important that we support each other! No one should be forced to have an abortion, and no one should be barred from doing so. Religiously, morally, and ethically, we cannot strip away a humans right to decide for themselves what happens to their body. Religiously speaking, if some decides to sin that is THEIR choice. The consequences for that will be THEIRS to face. We have no right to decide how another person lives their life. And you may say that a mother has no right to decide the fate of a life within them, but unfortunately that isn’t true. A pregnant woman is actually the only person who has full control over the life of another, solely by the decisions they make while carrying them. A woman may not abort, but smoke and drink throughout her entire pregnancy. It’s not illegal, no one has the right to stop her, yet it will significantly impact another life. The only way to protect our rights as women is to protect ALL of our rights.

Do you think most pro-life people do a good job defending their position?

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