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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 26 - How To Destroy The "Best" Pro-Abortion Argument

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Every pro-abortion argument really boils down to this: "my body, my choice." Or, as pro-aborts call it, bodily autonomy. The bodily autonomy argument is supposed to be unassailable and logically bullet proof. It is supposed to end the discussion. It doesn't. Let me demonstrate how to completely annihilate the Left's "best" argument for abortion. I can do it in 5 simple steps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Let's talk about bodily autonomy.

0:03.0

Okay.

0:04.0

This is really the number one pro abortion argument.

0:09.4

This is the pro abortion argument that pro abortes think is irrefutable.

0:14.2

They're very proud of this argument because they think it is the argument that cannot be

0:19.5

refuted.

0:20.5

That's how good it is.

0:22.9

And it's the argument now that upon which they've based their entire pro abortion position,

0:29.8

many pro boards have at this point really basically conceded or at least decided to move

0:38.0

beyond the personhood debate.

0:41.0

So for a lot of pro abortion people, they're not going to argue with you about when does

0:46.0

personhood begin, when does life begin, is the fetus a human life, is it a person?

0:52.4

A lot of pro abortion people will say, well, that doesn't matter.

0:55.8

Call the fetus whatever you want to call it life, not a life person, not a person,

0:59.7

it doesn't matter.

1:01.7

It doesn't matter what the fetus is, all that matters is my autonomy, my right over my

1:07.7

own body.

1:09.9

What you'll hear these days is that personhood begins whenever the mother decides that is

1:17.0

now the scientific position of pro abortes, that personhood life begins whenever the mother

1:25.0

wants it to, because she has autonomy and this autonomy gives her the really supernatural

1:32.4

ability to grant or rescind humanity to and from her child, depending on what she wants.

1:38.7

So if she wants the baby to be a human being at 20 weeks, it's a human being at 20 weeks.

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