Pro-Life And Abortion Debate

Pro-life and Pro-choice Debate
Abortion plays on the heart strings of all who are involved. Both side of the arguments are arguing for human life, one side for the mother and the other for the unborn child. Values play the biggest role in these arguments, and each argument can be circular based on people’s values. These sides use many different transcendence arguments for their movement. Both sides use quantity, quality, value, hierarchy, and antithesis to convince people to support their side of the movement. The quantity and quality transcendence arguments are used together by the pro-life and pro-choice movements. The arguments from quality compare what is good or bad and what is moral versus immoral, and the quantity arguments support …show more content…
Arguments for the pro-life movements based on value argue that women’s rights, the freedom of choice and religious liberty, are much lower on than the value scale than the right to life. They use a reverse value argument, that the ends, preserving a woman’s right of privacy and choice, does not justify the end, depriving the fetus of its right to life. This argument is effective because is clearly states what the activist in the movement value. This argument can also a hierarchy argument. Hierarchy arguments make decisions based on the importance of one issue over another. When using a hierarchy argument activist argue that their value is more important than another. For example, people are more important that animals or one race is more important than another. This relates to the pro-life movement because they argue that the fetus’s right to life is more important that the mothers right to privacy or freedom of choice. They also argue that this is a moral issue rather than a political issue, which makes the issue a higher …show more content…
They paint the opposition through name-calling, labeling, and ridicule that shows them as corrupt and evil. Antithesis arguments have been used by both the pro-choice and pro-life side. The pro-life side has used this argument by reminding people of what has happened in history when humans were labeled as nonpersons. They bring up Nazi Germany and the extermination of six million Jews because they were labeled as nonpersons. Antithesis arguments are very effective because it references an event most people believe to be immoral and wrong and relates it to the abortion issue. Activist don’t have to convince people that the holocaust was evil and wrong, so when it is related to abortion people understand that it is just as wrong as that. In the pro-choice and pro-life debate, activist use transcendence arguments like quantity, quality, value, hierarchy, and antithesis to convince people. These movements can be very effective in persuade people that their side is the right side. Both sides play on the emotions of people to convince them to agree with their side. I think the most important thing to remember in this debate is the sobering fact that both sides are arguing for a life, whether the mother’s or the unborn child’s, and each side makes their arguments based on what they