MYTH: “Women have a
‘right to choose’. We have no right to
tell a woman what she can do with her own body.”
TRUTH: While this common
pro-abortion pronouncement may sound good on the surface, it does not stand up
to the slightest examination on several grounds:
1) Abortion
is directed at, and kills, the body of the child, not the mother. From the moment of conception the zygote,
embryo, fetus, child, and so on is a separate body having its own process of
growth, growing its own organs, and with its own DNA; no part of our bodies has
its own organs or DNA. Pro-life people
are not trying to tell the mother what to do with her body: we are seeking to
prevent others from doing deadly harm to the unborn baby’s body.
2) A
generic “right to choose” is a
non-sensical proposition that even
abortion rights supporters don’t really believe in. Any action at all can be
expressed as a “choice”. How many
people, pro-life or pro-choice, support the choice to rape, murder, or
steal? Many people who call
themselves “pro-choice” don’t even want
to permit the “choice” to hold a sign in front of an abortion clinic. Choices can only be evaluated on the basis of
what is being chosen, and people who go by the label “pro-choice” almost always
mean no more than the choice of a mother to abort her unborn child.
3) Likewise,
even pro-choice advocates are in favor of laws restricting what people,
including women, can do with their bodies.
There is no public clamor in favor of the right of women to use their
bodies to drive drunk; nobody that I know of supports the right of women to use
their bodies to beat their already born children; I have never heard a
pro-choice advocate support the right of women to strap explosives to their
bodies and set them off in crowded marketplaces.
4) Pro-choice
supporters are inconsistently silent on the issue of women who feel they have
been given no choice but abortion:
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute (historically
associated with Planned Parenthood, the world’s largest abortion provider) has
found that the two most common reasons women
bort are lack of finances and emotional support. And yet pro-choicers try to shut down the
pregnancy help centers that offer emotional support and material help that’s
not available anywhere else (see Pro-life Answers to Pro-choice Arguments)
.
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Mary Cunningham Agee surveyed post-abortive
women about what they had really wanted.
91 0ut of 100 women said that they would have preferred to give birth,
but felt that abortion was their only choice.
This survey was part of her inspiration for the founding of The
Nurturing Network, an organization with thousands of volunteers providing the
practical assistance that women told her they needed.
DON’T BUY THE LIE!
Essential Pro-Life Resources:
Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments (link)
Care-Net (link)
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