As the debate over abortion continued in recent months to boil over in expectation of the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Colson Center for Christian Worldview and Focus on the Family addressed various claims pro-choice supporters make and how pro-life advocates should respond in a “Post-Roe World.”
Stephanie Gray Connors, a pro-life apologist, was one of four who spoke at a recent seminar, presented by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview and Focus on the Family titled, “Preparing for a Post-Roe World.”
Pro-life advocates, she said on June 13, should not seek to “just win an argument but win the very people we’re arguing with.”
The first false claim she addressed during the seminar is that embryos aren’t people.
Pro-abortionists say people are “rational, conscious and self-aware,” and an embryo “at the beginning of pregnancy might be human, but it’s not those things.” Connors referenced her own 9-month old, saying she is not “rational, conscious and self-aware” because of her age, but she does have that capacity. And the same is true for human embryos.
“Are human rights grounded in how old we are, how developed we are or who we are as members of the human family?” Connors asked.
Another false claim Connors highlighted is that women have a right to an abortion because the Constitution provides a right to liberty.
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