Analyzing four bad arguments in favor of abortion rights

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Excerpt:

As a bioethics student, I’ve encountered several challenging arguments in favor of abortion.  In my research on the subject, there have been several authors who’ve forced me to think about the issue more deeply and to sharpen my arguments against it.

But there are also some pretty bad arguments out there.  In popular-level discussions about abortion, you’ll often hear pro-choice advocates use arguments that completely miss the point and that show a lack of familiarity with the arguments on the pro-life side.  In this post, I want to point out four such arguments and show how they’re really nothing more than red herrings.

  • The first bad argument for abortion is the idea that you can be personally against it, but you shouldn’t force your beliefs on others.
  • The second bad argument for abortion is that a woman can do whatever she wants with her body.
  • A third bad argument is that it’s a women’s issue, so men have no right to tell a woman that she can’t have an abortion.
  • The last bad argument for abortion is that it should be legal because women will keep having abortions even if it’s not, and we should at least ensure that they will have them in safe environments (instead of in back alleys with rusty equipment).

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