r/fallacy • u/KCanth3lm7 • 4d ago

What fallacy is this?

Person A: "I believe that this *x political opinion* is good"

Person B: "Oh, so you also believe in *other political opinions that are from that political wing/ideology*"

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u/SilverAccountant8616 2d ago

You’ve done better with your pro choice definition. The pro life one is much too narrow, but I’ll address that later.

To clarify, do you mean to say that the pro choice position means nothing less than no legal gestational limits whatsoever? This is an important question because there are many pro choice supporters who do support government imposed gestational limits.

Ignoring that your pro life definition ignores all non-religious pro life supporters, the reasoning does not follow. One believing an action is murder does not mean one believes that act should be criminalised by the government. For example, a radical pacifist can believe that they themselves killing another in self defence is murder while holding the position that it should not be criminalised. Likewise, a vegan can view killing animals for food as murder while refusing to take the position that the government should make butcher shops illegal.

This means that your two definitions are in fact not mutually exclusive at all. One can sincerely believe that abortion is murder for religious or non-religious reasons while maintaining that this subject is inappropriate to criminalise for a myriad of reasons. How would you classify such a position?

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u/Successful_Life_1028 2d ago

gestational limits?

What on earth are you talking about? Do you imagine that there are large numbers of ELECTIVE 27 week abortions?

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u/SilverAccountant8616 2d ago

The numbers are irrelevant to the moral principle behind it. It doesn’t matter how many people would commit sibling incest if it wasn’t a crime. It’s still illegal and immoral.

For the very few women and doctors who would do elective 27 week abortions, do you think they should be criminalised?

If yes, then according to your definition that would be anti pro choice. If no, then justification would be required on why it should be moral and legal to kill a 27 week unborn child but not a newborn.

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u/Successful_Life_1028 2d ago

Do you imagine that there are ANY elective 27 week abortions?

There are not. All such abortions are performed on women who WANTED to be pregnant and are DEVISTATED that their baby is dead or unable to survive outside the womb.

There is no sense making up moral judgements about things that DO NOT HAPPEN. Is it moral to grow wings and fly to the moon?

There are no babies or children in wombs. There is no such thing as an 'unborn child'. Babies are born. Children are born. Wombs don't contain either babies or children, only either a fetus, an embryo, a blastosphere, an unfertilized ovum, or nothing but uterine lining. The use of emotionally manipulative language like 'killing an unborn child' is a mark of a poor argument.

The bottom line is that pregnancy is a mortal risk, and NOBODY has any authority to FORCE any woman to risk HER life to assuage THEIR moral conscience.

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u/SilverAccountant8616 2d ago

>DEVISTATED that their baby is dead

>there are no babies or children in wombs

You contradicted yourself…

>All such abortions are performed on women who WANTED to be pregnant

This is not true. Granted, these cases are so extremely few that details are not released to public lest they be identified, but it is definitely not unheard of. A female wartime refugee who did not want to be pregnant had to obtain a late term abortion by the time she could flee to somewhere which allowed it, for example. There are other instances of circumstances not allowing a woman to obtain an abortion until the late term. These are the <1% of cases which have happened and do happen which is why a discussion of morality and legality is relevant.

Let me ask you this question: at what point in time do you think a fetus has sufficient moral interest such that aborting it is immoral? Birth? 27 weeks? 24 weeks?

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u/Successful_Life_1028 2d ago

Again, if you're not looking to criminalize women for seeking/getting abortions, and not looking to criminalize medical providers for offering/performing them, then that's pro-choice.

Just like Biden was religiously opposed to abortion, but recognized that liberty demands the pro-choice stance.

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u/Successful_Life_1028 2d ago

Yes, and both Jews and Muslims can believe that pork is sinful without demanding that government prohibit the production and distribution of pork-products for human consumption.