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 ====== PBA100H: The Key Question ====== ====== PBA100H: The Key Question ======
-===== The Context ===== +Replaced by [[PBA100Y]].
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-===== The Key Argument ===== +
-Elective abortion unjustly ends the life of an innocent human being. +
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-  - Intentionally killing an innocent human being is a serious moral wrong; +
-  - Elective abortion is the intentional killing of an innocent human being; +
-  - :. Elective abortion is a serious moral wrong +
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-Most people agree with the first premise, so the critical question regarding the second premise becomes: **what is a pre-born child?** +
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-If a pre-born child is not a human being, no justification for elective abortion is necessary. But if a pre-born child is a human being, no justification for elective abortion is //adequate//. +
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-FIXME: Right to Know booklet on difficult life circumstances, complexity, and killing; should we kill people or kill problems? +
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-==== Three Question Apologetic ==== +
-FIXME Francis Beckwith, modified by CCBR? +
-  * If something is growing, it is alive, isn't it? +
-  * If something has human parents, isn't it human offspring? +
-  * And humans have human rights, don't they? +
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-===== Circumstances ===== +
-The circumstances surrounding abortion are often practically, psychologically, emotionally, socially, economically complex, but they are not morally complex. The issue is whether one may kill an innocent human being as a way of dealing with difficult life circumstances. +
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-[[http://abortionincanada.ca/facts/why-women-choose-abortion/|Why Women Choose Abortion]] +
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-People will usually bring up difficult life circumstances to justify abortion. There are three steps to bringing a conversation back to the fundamental question of What is the pre-born? +
-  - Find common ground +
-  - Use an analogy to trot out the toddler +
-  - Would we ever kill a born child in that circumstance? +
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-Then, we can address the question of the status of a pre-born child. +