Does a Woman Really have the Right to Choice?
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Rapp Report Daily 497 Many make the argument when it comes to abortion that it is the women’s right to choose what she wants to do with her body. However, is that really the case? When we applied some simple critical thinking skills we see that argument falls apart. Enter the Christian Podcast Community contest...
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we want to apply critical thinking to some of the issues we hear in the social culture, we hear things, let's take the issue of abortion, that it is a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body.
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- The argument is that she, and she alone, should have the right to decide what to do with her body.
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- No law should be against it. No man should vote against it. No one should have a right but she alone.
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- Let's apply critical thinking and see if that's consistent. Can the woman choose to do whatever she wants with her own body with, say, hallucinatory drugs that are illegal?
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- Well, actually, we just gave the answer, they're illegal, which means we do have a body of people who have voted, and those people, mostly men, on what not only women but everyone could do with their body.
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- So it is illegal for certain drugs to be taken by women. It's a choice that they could do with their own body and yet they don't have that choice.
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- You can apply this to drinking. There's laws that say a woman under a certain age is not allowed to drink or smoking cigarettes.
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- A woman under a certain age is not allowed to choose that she wants to smoke cigarettes.
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- These things are made illegal. So when they say that a woman should have the right to choose whatever she wants with her own body, well, all you have to do is apply it to other matters and realize they're not consistent.