Dear Christian anti-abortion-ists
So if the objection is based merely on "It's against the rules of the game my God made", then just say that instead. Don't call it murder. Call it "a rule violation". Be honest. Don't use language meant specifically to trigger emotional disgust and outrage based on the idea of a LOSS that you aren't even sure actually happens. Choose, instead, to be honest with yourself. Choose, also, to refrain from being unethically, emotionally-manipulative. Also, saying you don't know what happens to the soul of the "baby" who gets aborted, or miscarried, etc.. means that you don't know if your God "does the right thing" or not. You could, of course, pretend you don't have a fairly certain view about: what "the right thing to do" would be. But of course you do. If someone said to you "I bet your god really enjoys watching kids get raped", you'd certainty object. But what would the BASIS of that objection be? You'd be basing that on: your human moral perceptions. "X would be bad. Therefore, there's no way my God does X". You're either qualified to assess for yourself what counts as good and bad behavior for a "God" .. or you're not. If you're not, then you have no way to evaluate the moral value of anything in any religion's texts; not even your religion's texts. In that case, you'd have no way to justify any confidence in how morally impressive bibles are. So just be honest and admit you DO have a position about: what the right thing to do is; - for a super-being who has the power to do anything he wants; -IF "he" really does regard an early-term fetus as a person. Granted, you can still fall back on "but I really don't know if the fetus should be prevented from being truly discontinued forever". But that would still nullify all of your potential objections to early-term abortion. Realize, it's the same as saying "For all I know, EITHER: a.) God doesn't value that soul/person or b.) God doesn't regard it as a soul/person". In either case, ... IF the fetus is NOT delivered into eternal paradise, then: anyone who performs or receives an abortion is aborting *something* or *someone* that even your GOD regards as disposable. That means that you TOO should regard it as disposable; if you're going to bring your moral compass into alignment with your "God's" moral compass. In this case, your "God's" only available objection would be "but it's against my totally arbitrary rules." In all possible cases (no matter what happens to an aborted or miscarried fetus), ... you forfeit all morally-meaningful grounds for objecting, except as an appeal to: The Authority And Feelings Of The Super God-Guy Who Made The Game. -But that means you aren't actually defending the life of the "baby". You're actually only defending the feelings of your "God", while tricking yourself into thinking it's really about the "baby". [Fun Fact. In 1976, clever Conservative Politicians needed a way to polarize and mobilize religious-conservative voters, to prevent Jimmy Carter from getting re-elected.
THAT is when early-term fetuses became "babies", in the minds of millions of Protestant Conservative Evangelicals] Meanwhile, the only people who should care about the poor fragile and arbitrary feelings of your conceptualized "God" ... are people who imagine such a game-creator is real and then feel over-protective of his feelings.
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