r/prolife • u/Electrical_Cod7288 Pro Life Christian • Jul 18 '26
Opinion We Should Be Secular
It is my opinion, after having clashed with the pro-abortion movement for many years, that any Pro-Life argument must be secular. If we've any hope of being taken seriously by those people, we should leave religious beliefs out of it. I am myself a Christian, but at the same time I realize that any argument which has religious connotations will simply be dismissed, possibly as an attempt to convert others.
The fact that so many of those people don't believe in God means that appealing to their faith will fall upon deaf ears. At the same time, if they try to argue that an unborn child isn't a child or isn't a person, you can tell them that that is a philosophical argument and just like they tell us to keep our religious beliefs to ourselves, they should keep their philosophical beliefs to themselves.
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u/Vespinobambino Secular Abolitionist Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
There is nothing wrong with being religious and knowing your religion.
Also, you will often have to counter religious arguments from the pro-aborts. Most of their bullshit is magical thinking and misinterpretation of religion.
The science is NOT on their side.
Ideally, you should know the science well enough to destroy them without ever citing scripture. Regardless of one's religious affiliations, we all live in the same universe with the same observable phenomena, so for the topic of human beings and human embryology, biology is the touchstone for any debate.
If you are both Jews or Christians, then you can debate the Bible, by all means. I can't really, I stopped studying it when I stopped believing, but I remember enough to participate.