"Forced" to Be Parents? |
Gregory Koukl
A new challenge to the pro-life view is the claim that restrictions on abortion actually force women to become parents against their will. This, of course, sounds like an unconscionable intrusion of government into our private lives.
I agree, no one should be forced to become a parent against his or her will, but this is not the situation we face in abortion. If the unborn is a human being, then pregnant women already are parents. It seems morally self-evident that no parent should escape her responsibilities by killing her unwanted children. The only legitimate way to escape from already being a parent is through adoption.
Clearly, the issue isn’t unwanted parenthood. If the unborn is a human being, the woman already is the child's mother. She should not be permitted to kill him just because she doesn’t want him.
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