Views From Each Side
"The more I learned the more I began to let go of my carefully held certainties. After my worldview took on a few more shades of gray, my friends started telling me about their abortions. I had to come to terms with the fact that the women against whom I had so emphatically protested in high school were good people, people I knew, people I would want for my friends. What to do with that? Love the sinner, hate the sin? Fairly easy to say in Christian theory, but my friends didn't seem like sinners. They seemed like girls who had fallen in love, or been taken advantage of, or even raped." - Elizabeth Wardle |
It is the rhetoric of "choice" that fuels violence. By exalting "choice" and "freedom," even when the free choice is the killing of a human being, this rhetoric degrades the value of all human life. "Abortion on demand - no apologies." That is the rhetoric of violence. It does not deny that abortion kills children. It simply says, "I don't care. My choice is more important than the child's life." - Father Frank Pavone |
Former Pro-Life advocate, Elizabeth Wardle describes how her view changed: how she still held the same belief that abortion was wrong, but found that the women who got abortions were not just faceless members of a group. She found that she could not pass judgement so easily without knowing each woman's situation.
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According to priestsforlife.org, they strictly believe that abortion is wrong, and that the pro-choice rhetoric is harmful. By using bible passages and quotes from religious figures to prove their point, the author argues that the pro-choice rhetoric is dangerous for society.
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Wardle, Elizabeth. "The Rhetoric of Abortion: Reflections from a Former Pro-life
Activist." Alternet.org, 13 Oct. 2006, www.alternet.org/story/42888/ the_rhetoric_of_abortion%3A_reflections_from_a_former_pro-life_activistn. Accessed 13 Jan. 2017. |
Pavone, Frank. "Pro-Choice Rhetoric Leads To Violence." Priests For Life,
www.priestsforlife.org/brochures/rhetoric.html. |