hat tip to Ouroboros:
How to Stump Anti-Abortionists With One Question
by Daniel Florien
Did you know you can stump anti-abortionists with one simple question?
Just ask them this:
If abortion was illegal, what should be done with the women who have illegal abortions?
Now watch their faces as the cognitive dissonance sets in. They believe abortion to be murder. Murder deserves severe punishment. Thus, women who have illegal abortions should receive severe punishment -- like life in prison or the death penalty. That's the logical conclusion.
But they can't accept this conclusion. They know it's absurd and unfair -- which means they know abortion is not really murder.
Here's a must-watch video of anti-abortion protesters being asked this question:
It's amazing they've never thought about the question before -- they've been involved in the anti-abortion movement for years. What's the point of spending all that time trying to make abortion illegal if you're not even sure there should be any punishment for breaking the law?
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