When you say, “Abortion is wrong,” what do you often hear in response? A long list of circumstances explaining how hard the mother’s life is. In the video above, the young girl who meets Created Equal team member Lisbeth references, for example, the emotional challenges of pregnancy, the difficulty of sorting through the question of adoption, etc. The point she’s making, like many others, is that because life is hard, abortion is okay. Why do so many abortion advocates feel compelled to respond to our argument by saying, essentially, “But life is hard”? It seems they misunderstand our basic case. When we say, “Abortion is wrong,” they seem to hear us saying it is easy for the mother to keep the child, place the
child for adoption, etc. And so they respond by saying, “No, you’re wrong. It’s hard.” But we’ve never said this. The case against abortion has never been based on the ease with which someone carries a baby, gives birth, makes parenting decisions, etc. Our case has always been that regardless of how hard it may be, doing the right thing remains the right thing.
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