a – I’m pro-life.

b – Across the board?

a – Yes, except for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.

b – How can you call that pro-life?

a – I’m being reasonable.

b – What’s reasonable about saying some human lives are more valuable than others? Don’t all lives matter?

a – No one should have to carry her rapist’s baby to term.

b – Rather, no one should ever rape a person. THAT is the moral evil. Being pregnant, like the woman, and coming into existence, like the child, are not evils.

a – I didn’t say they were evils.

b – Then why punish the innocent child or do more harm to the traumatized mother for what the criminal father did?

a – That child has no business being there.

b – Many people have come into existence due to unjust, sinful acts. People who exist through fornication, in-vitro fertilization, and adultery were all conceived by immoral acts. Should they not exist? Are their lives any less valuable than others?

a – It should be up to the woman.

b – And that’s the mantra of those who are ‘pro-choice’ on child-killing, commonly known as abortion.

a – Okay, I’m pro-choice for a few cases.

b – The world’s genocidalists were also for the choice to kill one or two categories of people for a perceived greater good. Either you believe all human lives are sacred and must be protected, or you don’t. There’s no middle ground with this principle.

a – Okay. If compromising on that principle makes me pro-choice on abortion, so be it. I’m still calling myself pro-life, since it makes me feel better.