Abortion: The Nationwide Debate
Cardboard signs with the phrases “Abortion is homicide”, “Stop the baby slashers”, and “Love thy unborn neighbor”, can be seen all over the nation, on every street corner. Followed with graphic images of aborted babies and unborn fetuses, these signs are shocking many people in America. Abortion, and where America stands on the issue, has become a major topic of conversation in the United States and its government. The idea of abortion, previously a religious issue, has grown into a nationwide debate. Non religious pro life groups, such as the SPL and AUL, are promoting their views, holding protests and marches. Combining both religion and reason, many important people and events are pushing the pro life movement …show more content…
One of these groups is the Secular Pro Life Group (SPL). This group has been essential in promoting the pro life movement for both religious and nonreligious individuals. In fact, at the annual American Atheists convention in March they were one of the unexpected groups among the other typical exhibits. The Secular Pro Life Group is a nontheistic anti abortion group that works to spread the pro life movement past just religious people (Rossi, 33). According to an article written in the Human Life Review journal, “SPL was founded by attorney Kelsey Hazzard, a non-Christian who started the group when she was a college student to bring together people of all faiths or no faith in defense of unborn human life. Members strive to use only philosophical and scientific arguments to argue against abortion” (Fain, 105). Using scientific arguments for their cause, the SPL has laid down four basic premises in their argument against abortion. These four reasons are: “1) the fetus is a human being, 2) there is no consistent, objective distinction between a "human being" (biologically speaking) and a "person" (legally speaking), 3) human beings merit human rights, and 4) bodily integrity is not sufficient to justify most abortions” (Rossi, 33). None of these reasons are associated with God or religion, and as a result they have convinced many people to join the pro life movement, whether they’re religious or
Cardboard signs with the phrases “Abortion is homicide”, “Stop the baby slashers”, and “Love thy unborn neighbor”, can be seen all over the nation, on every street corner. Followed with graphic images of aborted babies and unborn fetuses, these signs are shocking many people in America. Abortion, and where America stands on the issue, has become a major topic of conversation in the United States and its government. The idea of abortion, previously a religious issue, has grown into a nationwide debate. Non religious pro life groups, such as the SPL and AUL, are promoting their views, holding protests and marches. Combining both religion and reason, many important people and events are pushing the pro life movement …show more content…
One of these groups is the Secular Pro Life Group (SPL). This group has been essential in promoting the pro life movement for both religious and nonreligious individuals. In fact, at the annual American Atheists convention in March they were one of the unexpected groups among the other typical exhibits. The Secular Pro Life Group is a nontheistic anti abortion group that works to spread the pro life movement past just religious people (Rossi, 33). According to an article written in the Human Life Review journal, “SPL was founded by attorney Kelsey Hazzard, a non-Christian who started the group when she was a college student to bring together people of all faiths or no faith in defense of unborn human life. Members strive to use only philosophical and scientific arguments to argue against abortion” (Fain, 105). Using scientific arguments for their cause, the SPL has laid down four basic premises in their argument against abortion. These four reasons are: “1) the fetus is a human being, 2) there is no consistent, objective distinction between a "human being" (biologically speaking) and a "person" (legally speaking), 3) human beings merit human rights, and 4) bodily integrity is not sufficient to justify most abortions” (Rossi, 33). None of these reasons are associated with God or religion, and as a result they have convinced many people to join the pro life movement, whether they’re religious or