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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.
I don’t think so. Maybe gods plan for that baby was abortion.
Holds up to me.
Or maybe god had no plan for the aborted fetuses and that’s why they were aborted. Every person aborting a fetus is doing gods will.
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.