{"id":1405,"date":"2012-07-07T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/07\/just-fyi-this-country-meaning-the-us-which-i-assume"},"modified":"2012-07-07T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T20:32:12","slug":"just-fyi-this-country-meaning-the-us-which-i-assume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/just-fyi-this-country-meaning-the-us-which-i-assume\/","title":{"rendered":"Just FYI, this country (meaning the US, which I assume is where you live) is not a theocracy, which means that the laws of this country (including the laws regarding abortion) should not be based on any one religion (or holy book) in particular. So just because your religion teaches you to think that abortion is morally wrong doesn\u2019t mean a thing in terms of whether or not abortion should be illegal. So do you have any non-religious reasons as to why abortion should be illegalized?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, sure.<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Abortion kills innocent life.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Killing innocent life is, by definition, murder.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Murder is illegal.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Therefore, abortion should be illegal.<\/p>\n

That’s not religious. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Well, sure. 1. \u00a0Abortion kills innocent life. 2. \u00a0Killing innocent life is, by definition, murder. 3. \u00a0Murder is illegal. 4. \u00a0Therefore, abortion should be illegal. That’s not religious. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-mF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1404,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/difficulty-facing-a-world-of-contradictions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1405,"position":0},"title":"Difficulty Facing A World of Contradictions","date":"July 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In my recent blog post related to the contradictory stand on the value of human life in American culture, I claimed that, according to the law of the land, a fetus is deemed human according to the desire of the mother. 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