On the issue of abortion, many who are opposed to its legalization back up their position by stating, “life begins at conception.” This is incorrect because human gametes—sperm and ova—are also alive. Every time one of them dies, a potential human being has “died” as well. This, obviously, happens quite often. The only way to prevent this loss of life would be to ensure that every sperm fertilizes an ovum and every ovum is fertilized by a sperm.
Archive for the ‘Refutations’ Category
Essay: Legalization of Homosexual Marriage
As I said in an earlier post, one of my friends is against homosexuality. She’s also against the government legalizing homosexual marriage and she wrote an essay for school last year about this. When I sent her my previous post, she sent me her essay to look at.
Article: Catholic Answers – Homosexuality
Recently at my high school our GSA and some individuals unrelated to the group were celebrating Ally Week in various ways, such as through wearing clothes of certain colors on different days. One of my good friends who is against homosexuality didn’t like the fact that the school was supporting it. Since she was against it, I decided to do a quick Google search to see what kinds of reasons people have for being against homosexuality, most of which I was already somewhat aware of.
