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March for Life 2018: SPL’s Kelsey Hazzard
This is my friend Kelsey. As the president of SPL she’s accustomed to giving short speeches about the right to life, but she decided that this time she wanted to try stepping “outside her comfort zone.” I think it went very well, don’t you? SPL stands for Secular Pro Life. You can hear her being introduced with the line, “because abortion is not a religious issue. It’s a human rights issue.” As an atheist pro-lifer, I couldn’t agree more. Despite what the opposition would have you believe, this isn’t about people trying to impose their religious beliefs on others. (I don’t have any.) It’s about the principle that human rights begin when human life begins.
SPL president Kelsey Hazzard has something to say:
Posted by Secular Pro-Life on Friday, January 19, 2018
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Published in Religion & Philosophy
For me the fundamental question is and always was, is this a human being. My answer has always been it is much human as I was and am. Therefore it is a human rights issue for me, fundamentally the right to life. All problems/questions that remain, and they are many, are secondary to that. But I have no more right to take your life than you have to take mine, absent certain criminal conviction and/or self defense.
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Thanks for posting though.
I have never encountered a pro-abortion argument that claimed to identify the point during pregnancy at which a “fetus” becomes a morally significant human person. Without that certainty, abortion at the very least risks the killing of an innocent human being inherently deserving of life. It is amazing how carelessly abortion advocates dismiss that risk.
They think of babies in the womb as abstract concepts, not persons in the earliest stages of life (who in helplessness are no different from born babies). Thank God for ultrasounds! Seeing is believing.
Bravura!
As someone says at the end of the video, “That was fabulous!”
Thanks for sharing.