Dennis Prager Show - The Morality of Abortion
Aired: 2024-12-10
Duration: 02:30


=== Abortion and Moral Responsibility (02:14) ===

[00:00:00]  I think that the left, as opposed to liberals again, the left hates the idea of God-given morality because they're not humble.
[00:00:13]  That's a definition of humility.
[00:00:16]  I have to answer to God for how I behave.
[00:00:19]  It's the abortion thing.
[00:00:20]  I think that's largely a play.
[00:00:22]  Oh, of course it is.
[00:00:24]  Listen.
[00:00:26]  If a pro-choice person says, well, what about rape?
[00:00:30]  What about incest?
[00:00:31]  Even though, obviously, those who think it's a human, it's a human no matter how conceived.
[00:00:36]  We grant an understanding of their argument.
[00:00:41]  Of course.
[00:00:41]  Absolutely.
[00:00:44]  The girl, you know, can't afford to raise a child.
[00:00:48]  She's a terrible home life.
[00:00:50]  We understand all of that.
[00:00:53]  My issue with the pro-choice folks is that they don't recognize that the pregnant woman might have a moral standard to which she must be judged.
[00:01:07]  You can't judge them.
[00:01:08]  They don't even acknowledge...
[00:01:09]  Look, we've talked about it on this show.
[00:01:11]  I'm conflicted when it comes to abortion.
[00:01:14]  Really conflicted.
[00:01:15]  I can understand both sides.
[00:01:16]  Of course, I'm not an aborted nine months kind of person.
[00:01:18]  I want to make that clear.
[00:01:19]  But I go back and forth.
[00:01:21]  But you're so right that what I dislike about pro-choice people, they won't even acknowledge that that exists.
[00:01:27]  They deny.
[00:01:28]  And I notice that this is the case with many left-wingers.
[00:01:32]  They will not acknowledge that any of their positions may have some downsides with regard to immigration, for instance.
[00:01:39]  They will not acknowledge the downside that, yes, maybe we could be welcoming great people into this country.
[00:01:44]  Many great people who are immigrants have come into this country, but it opens the possibility for abuse and drugs.
[00:01:50]  They will never, ever acknowledge that.
[00:01:53]  And it's the same thing with abortion.
[00:01:55]  They won't acknowledge that there may be some responsibility that you as the woman who is in that unfortunate situation may have to your unborn child.

=== God's Determination (00:29) ===

[00:02:03]  Well, I think the abortion is a very clear example of you cannot hold a pregnant woman as being judgeable.
[00:02:14]  No.
[00:02:15]  She is God vis-a-vis that fetus.
[00:02:21]  She is God.
[00:02:22]  The determiner of life and death is by definition God.
[00:02:26]  The idea that there is a moral God above her.