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just an observation: the two scenarios aren't the same from the poaition of thw protestor.
she says that her god has a plan for all the babies. her contention is that abortion messes with that 'plan'.
the argument that her god killed the first-born of egyptians is not relevant here. while it displays cruelty, if anything, it supports her position.
her god had a 'plan' for those killings as well. her premise here is not that 'killing' of foetuses is cruel, it's that doing so messes with this 'plan'. so should -- in her eyes -- saving those first-borns in egypt.
now, i am pro-choice and not allowing safe access to abortion is an act of inhumanity for me -- and I'm the staunchest of atheists around as well as a person not brought up around this woman's faith -- but the interviewer here has got the wrong end of the horse.
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yep, absolutely, and this would have been a valid counterargument from the presenter. to attack the relevance of the 'plan' than the cruelty aspect.
this is exactly what my OC intended.