1. "Pro-lifers only care about children before they're born. / If you're pro-life, why aren't you for universal healthcare, pre-K, banning guns, abolishing the death penalty, etc.?..."

First of all, is it not morally better to care about preventing the murder of an unborn child than to want to kill that child?

If conservatives or pro-lifers or Christians actually supported all the supposedly pro-life policies that pro-choicers demand they support, would pro-choicers give up on fighting for abortion? I doubt it.

Being pro-life is a phrase that refers to being anti-abortion. You can argue all you want about other policies, but that is what being pro-life means.

Also. Christians adopt more children than pro-choicers do, but keep talking about how pro-lifers are hypocrites.

2. Abortion is about controlling a woman's body/My body, my choice/You just hate women.

As a woman, let me tell you that I have a uterus, so I'm allowed to have an opinion. (Unless you're a pro-choice man! Then, apparently, you're allowed to have all the opinions you want about how you want women to be able to get abortions so you don't have to take care of your child!)

No, abortion is not about controlling a woman's body. I believe women should control their own bodies, including choosing to use birth control, choosing to track their reproductive cycle so they know when they're fertile, and choosing to abstain from sexual relations with a man so that they don't get pregnant. However, the fact of the matter is, that the fetus (Latin for offspring), the baby, the unborn child inside of you, is not your body.

The child may be inside your body. But it is not your body that you are removing, crushing, dismembering, poisoning, and killing when you get an abortion. It is a child's body. Not just any child's body, but your child's body. Your own flesh and blood, DNA, offspring, and your child. The location of the child does not negate their humanity.

3. It's just a clump of cells./The baby isn't a real baby/It can't think/breathe/eat/walk/feel therefore it's fine to kill it

Abortion is not getting rid of a clump of cells, the same way a miscarriage is not about losing a clump of cells. If it were so, a miscarriage would be the same as a menstrual period, which it isn't.

The child in your womb, even at conception, is a human life, simply at an earlier stage of development than, say, a three-year-old. I was born prematurely at 26 weeks and 5 days. Was I less of a human a few weeks before that? A few months before that? WOuld it have been okay to kill me then?

The problem with the "the baby isn't even conscious" argument is that people who are asleep are also unconscious. But given time, both of those people will become conscious. Thus, killing a person in their sleep or before they develop consciousness, when you know they eventually will develop consciousness if left alone, is simply immoral.

4. What about rape and incest?

Rape and incest account for less than 1% of all abortions.

However, even if this were not the case, to argue that it is okay to kill a child based on the circumstances in which they were conceived is wrong. It is to tell people who are children of these circumstances and tell them that they don't deserve to live. Abortion is a trauma.

5. But what if the woman doesn't have enough money/a house/a job/a good marriage, etc. to raise the baby?

If a woman is a single mom who has a five-year-old child and she can barely afford to raise the child, does that mean she should kill the child? No, the just and logical solution is to help the woman get the resources she needs to raise that child. The same should be true for children inside the womb.

6. No uterus, no opinion.

In the same vein, those who don't drive shouldn't speak out against drunk driving. This is a phrase used to silence men, and frankly, in a democratic and free society, everyone should have the right to speech.

Also, pro-choice men are men who have abdicated their duty to be fathers, to take responsibility for their actions, and are deadbeats IMO.

7. You're just banning legal abortions/Women will die without abortions/Women will die from illegal abortions

In the year before Roe v. Wade was legalized in the U.S., 39 women died from illegal abortions and 24 women died from legal abortions. Those are tragedies.

But, they do not justify the wholesale slaughter of unborn babies.

If a woman needs to end her pregnancy because of a health reason, such as having cancer and needing to undergo radiation/chemotherapy, that is not about killing a child. That is about primarily treating the mother, and has th secondary tragic effect of ending the life of the child.

However, if in the third trimester, a mother finds that she cannot give birth to the child then because it would kill her, why not safely complete a C-section? Why is it necessary to kill the baby before they exit their mother?

Also, should we stop outlawing murder or theft just because they still happen? No.

Conclusion
Abortion is morally wrong. Children and women should be protected, supported, and cherished. The end.

Resources

https://adoption.org/who-adopts-the-most

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/24/rape-and-incest-account-few-abortions-so-why-all-attention/1211175001/

www.liveaction.org

www.lifesitenews.com