I think an update to the scorecard is long over due. The following is my best effort at condensing down all the idiotic pro-abortion arguments in the past 61 pages into one easy to read reference.
1. At the exact moment you exit the womb, that's when the birth fairy magically transforms you from a clump of cells into a human being worthy of protection - lib7
2. Well duh, that's why we celebrate birthdays! - Trim
3. "The government has no more obligation to protect people in the womb than they do people in Mexico. You don't get citizenship until birth." - RATM (I still really like this one
)
4. States don't charge murderers of pregnant women with double murder because of the baby - it's because the dad is also a victim! - Also RATM (Rage went on a hot streak early on)
5. But abortion is legal! - RATM and CNS (thanks captains obvious - that's not what we're discussing)
6. Planned Parenthood would shut down if it couldn't provide abortion - Mrs. G (why do you assume that?)
7. The Supreme Court already decided this - CNS (no, not really)
8. Abortions are only a very small amount of the services Planned Parenthood provides - CNS (
yeah, kinda like how Major League Baseball is in the hot dog business because it sells way more hotdogs than baseball games)
9. Those undercover videos are "heavily edited" - CNS (like every other TV media piece, except the CfMP also made the full versions available online)
10. You just don't like abortion because it's gross, but so is open heart surgery! - Lib7, Mocat, Roid (yup, no difference between the objectives of those procedures - none at all)
11. And autopsies! (see above)
12. IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD!! - Sundance (I'm sure that's what any conquering tribe/army throughout history has thought as they tossed the babies in the river - it doesn't make it true or any less barbaric)
UPDATE
13. Planned Parenthood receives no federal funds to provide abortion - that money is kept in the special "abortion pocket" which is like, totally separate from the contraception pocket. - lib7 (Except money is fungible; funding one with tax dollars frees up other money for abortion, similar to how sending foreign aid to the Palestinians helps the PLO spend its money on terrorism).
14. Who's the judge - let God sort it out! - Rage (we pass laws to judge all sorts of things in society and protect human life, like murder)
15. Who's a
man to judge? -Rusty (start here for dumbassery of this cop out:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/10/i-don-t-know-if-i-m-pro-choice-anymore.html#)
16. Abortion is every bit as much a constitutional right as gun ownership - MIR (except one is actually written in the Constitution, not added by a couple of dudes in black robes about 200 years later)
17. It's for the GREATER GOOD - SDK (yeah I know we already covered this one, but SDK went back to the well for a few more pages - still never made a convincing argument)
18. About 10,000 per year will be killed by back alley abortions if abortion is banned - MrsG (a laughably absurd number debunked by comparing to total deaths of women of childbearing age)
19. If you criminalize abortion, you'd also have to criminalize miscarriage -Bill Nye and assorts Pit'rs who tried to defend him
20. We shouldn't be in the business of legislating morality - Rage (we do it all the time - see murder - that's what we do in society)
21. If you really think abortion is as bad as murder, you should be taking up arms to oppose it, hypocrite!!! -Lib7 (Page 32)
22. People die all the time from things like pollution and that's not murder, why is abortion any different? -ChuckJames (this was actually said, not in jest)
23. I totally believe this "study" that 100,000 - 240,000 women in Texas tried at home abortions after clinics were shut down - Edna (apply some common sense instead of believing laughably absurd numbers)
24. If we're going to restrict abortion we should restrict Viagra - CNS (CNS might have been joking, but I can't tell for sure)
25. My friend got a Pap Smear at Planned Parenthood, so I support their abortion practice - Honest Abe