1. Don't pretend that rape is the reason in any significant proportion of abortions. Anyway, as I said earlier, I support abortion in such cases. This is not what we're discussing.
2. Don't pretend that historic abortion practices were anywhere close in scale and shamelessness to the very proud and public industrial slaughter that we see today. As I said earlier, if abortions came with appropriate repercussions to ensure it won't be necessary again (lifestyle counselling, community obligations, celibacy commitment or sterilisation, social restrictions, etc) then it would be far less common and far more acceptable, in my view.
3. If you actually want to convince anyone, you need to be careful with the 'compassion' angle. Assume the other person is not evil. I know it's hard, I'm struggling too (I'm sure you can see the obvious angle: someone claiming to be compassionate while facilitating the proliferation and ease of the practice of mincing up unborn babies, leaving millions of young women with terrible stains on their souls). It's not helpful.
2. Don't pretend that historic abortion practices were anywhere close in scale and shamelessness to the very proud and public industrial slaughter that we see today. As I said earlier, if abortions came with appropriate repercussions to ensure it won't be necessary again (lifestyle counselling, community obligations, celibacy commitment or sterilisation, social restrictions, etc) then it would be far less common and far more acceptable, in my view.
3. If you actually want to convince anyone, you need to be careful with the 'compassion' angle. Assume the other person is not evil. I know it's hard, I'm struggling too (I'm sure you can see the obvious angle: someone claiming to be compassionate while facilitating the proliferation and ease of the practice of mincing up unborn babies, leaving millions of young women with terrible stains on their souls). It's not helpful.