Completed List Of Anti-Abortion Arguments

I was raised anti-abortion, but became pro-choice as a young adult. Based on this transformation, I decided it would be interesting to collect together all of the arguments against abortion that I could find and post them for discussion. Therefore, with the help of my commenters, I have put together the following list. You can also find this list on the page I’ve created and listed under my projects tab.

(Feel free to comment on the way I categorized the arguments or arguments I missed, but I’ve put some work into boiling this down into specific points and I’d rather not redo the whole thing.)

I’m going to post each of these arguments individually in the coming weeks and open the floor for discussion and refutation. After a week I will close the comments sections on each post, and will choose the comments I consider clearest and most interesting and add them to the end of the OP (with full credit, of course).

1. A zygote/embryo/fetus is a person

2. Abortion is murder

3. Abortion is cruel

4. Shouldn’t we err on the safe side?

5. No abortion after fetal viability

6. The Bible condemns abortion

7. Abortion is bad for women’s physical and mental health

8. The abortion industry preys on women

9. Women are coerced into having abortions

10. Abortion makes it harder for women to say “no” to sex

11. Abortion devalues women and motherhood

12. Dead fetuses are put in various medical and consumer products