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[โ€“] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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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