Lloyd Benes: Challenging 8 arguments that support unrestricted abortion – Loveland Reporter-Herald

I would like to understand if any people support Gov. Polis and the Democrats of the Colorado Legislature who passed HB22-1279, which says a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state. Passage of that law this April codified into law abortion for any reason through nine months of pregnancy. Here are eight arguments from state leaders supporting this law followed by my responses challenging them. I then provide an e-mail at the end for people to comment and tell me their reasons, if they support this law.

1. A fertilized egg, embryo or fetus is not human life: Have you considered that over 5,200 biologists say that a humans life begins at fertilization?

2. Abortion is a gentle procedure: While this may be partially true for the mother, it is not for the unborn baby. My guest opinion of Aug. 15 in the RH revealed that 40% of abortions in the US are performed by dismembering the unborn child while alive.

3. Abortion is a constitutional right: Did you know that the 14th Amendment forbids states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law?

4. An embryo or fetus is not a person till their brain is fully developed: Neuroscientists say brain development does not end till age 25. Does it not follow that those who claim an embryo is not a person because its brain is not fully developed will have to apply that to all human life less than 25 years old?

5. Religious pro-abortionists have said that God has not breathed personhood into a child before it takes its first breath: Actually, the Bible says, you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb (Psalm 139:13, NIV). Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart (Jeremiah 1:5, NIV).

6. Abortion restrictions have damaging effects on the economy: Janet Yellin (former Federal Reserve head) said at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) pressed her, arguing that framing the issue of abortion around labor force participation feels callous to me. Ill just say that as a guy raised by a Black woman in abject poverty, I am thankful to be here as a United States senator. (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/10/yellen-banning-abortion-damaging-to-economy-00031339 ). Abortion for such economic reasons is applied eugenics. Eugenics is the theory that society can be improved through planned breeding for desirable traits. In April 2021, Planned Parenthood acknowledged that Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) caused irreparable damage to the health and lives of generations of Black people, Latino people, Indigenous people, immigrants, people with disabilities, people with low incomes. (https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/cc/2e/cc2e84f2-126f-41a5-a24b-43e093c47b2c/210414-sanger-opposition-claims-p01.pdf ). How many superlative people with low incomes have been lost to our country through the 62 million abortions performed since 1973? If Tim Scott could become a Senator, how many more like him have we lost?

7. Abortion restrictions are racist: Since the percentage of U.S. abortions for Black women is 3.6 times that of white women, this appears to be another application of eugenics. (https://abcnews.go.com/Health/abortion-restrictions-disproportionately-impact-people-color/story?id=84467809 ). What if we advanced the idea that Black lives matter instead of eugenics? It appears that pushing abortion for any reason through nine months of pregnancy might be the actual racist policy.

8. My body, my choice: Please consider that Charles Cooke reveals that with abortion, were not really talking about the mothers body, but about the other body at stake. And, while there is no doubt that pregnancy can be difficult, it is the other body that is facing certain death during an abortion. (https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/11/29/the-secular-case-against-abortion/ )

If you approve of abortion for any reason through nine months of pregnancy, help me understand your reasons by e-mailing me atlloydbenes50@gmail.com.If you disapprove, join me in opposing Gov. Polis and the Democrats of the Colorado Legislature who passed HB22-1279, which codified abortion-on-demand through birth in Colorado. The midterm elections are upon us, so please choose wisely.

Lloyd Benes is a retired mechanical engineer and Loveland resident.

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