Made This Way by Trent Horn & Leila Miller

Author:Trent Horn & Leila Miller [Horn, Trent & Miller, Leila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christianity, Catholic, Christian Life, Social Issues, Sexuality & Gender Studies
ISBN: 9781683570974
Google: w4J0uAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1683570979
Publisher: Catholic Answers
Published: 2018-08-27T22:00:00+00:00

Tougher Questions

As your children enter middle school, high school, and college, they will be bombarded with “pro-choice” arguments that try to obscure the real issue: are unborn children human beings, and what does abortion do to them? I highly recommend Trent’s book, Persuasive Pro-Life, for the complete refutation of these arguments, but for now, here are some quick responses for your teens:

• “If we make abortion illegal, then women will just get dangerous ‘back-alley abortions.’” We don’t make it legal for big people to kill little people so that it’s safer for the big people to kill little people. Besides, in countries where almost all abortions have been illegal, like Ireland (until recently) and Poland, maternal mortality (the rate at which pregnant women die) is lower than in the United States, which shows that abortion isn’t necessary to protect women’s health.77

• “If you’re pro-life, then why aren’t you a vegetarian who is against all wars?” Pro-life doesn’t mean it’s wrong to kill any life (it’s okay to use antibiotics or eat hamburgers), and it doesn’t even mean it’s wrong to kill human life (even your pacifist friends will likely agree that a woman being attacked by a serial killer may shoot him in self-defense). Even war may be necessary and morally licit in some cases to protect human life from aggressors. But just as we may never directly target and kill innocent human beings within a war zone, for example, we may never directly target and kill babies in the womb. The real question is why more people who protest wars or factory farming don’t also protest the dismemberment of unborn human children through abortion!

• “Even if it is a baby, it’s still my body, my choice.” At least this argument doesn’t try to make the case that a fetus is a literal “part of the woman’s body” (which is absurd, as no woman’s body has an extra head, eight limbs, and, half the time, a penis). But it does distort the relationship between mother and child in order to justify abortion. Just because you have power over someone does not give you the right to hurt that person. In early America, the law said that a slave’s body belonged to the slaveowner. Should we continue to let the powerful oppress the weak simply because they can? If you don’t want a baby, don’t engage in the baby-making act. If you go ahead and engage in that act, be prepared to take responsibility for any baby you create, as decency, responsibility, and maturity demand.

The Hard Cases

Teens are often susceptible to emotion-based arguments, such as those that appeal to “hard cases” like rape or danger to a woman’s life. But we must get them to understand that abortion is an intrinsically evil act, which means it is evil by its very nature, and no circumstance can ever make it moral or good.

Ask them: if we permit the grave evil of killing unborn babies under some circumstances, how can we say that any other evil

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