US Abortions
In the US, Abortion is legal through this stage of pregnancy
What is 9 months or all 3 trimesters?
When you are thinking about what you will say next during a debate, what should you do?
What is Silence your Inner Monologue?
Life begins at this precise moment.
What is Conception/ Fertilization?
When you take the time to understand someone's position before responding.
What is Ask a Clarification Question?
This North Carolina county has the most recorded abortions.
What is Mecklenburg County?
This growing number represents the babies who have been aborted in the US, since 1973
What is 66 million?
My Body, My Choice falls under this Bodily Autonomy Argument.
What is the Sovereign Zone Argument?
Science can tell us this is what is killed during an abortion.
What is a member of the species Homo sapiens?
The feeling a person must feel before they would change their mind.
What is emotionally safe?
The number of days that a parent has in North Carolina to anonymously surrender a newborn after birth with no consequences.
What is 30 days.
The Supreme Court decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion.
Bonus - name the date
What is Dobbs v Jackson
Bonus:June 24 2022
Judith Jarvis Thomson uses this example to justify that a woman can refuse to carry her baby.
What is the Violinist?
The three scientific facts that affirm the biological truths of the unborn.
What is The unborn is living.
The unborn is human.
The unborn is whole.
When you know you will be entering a discussion about abortion with someone, your clarification question should help you decide which of these two directions you need to go.
What is a Biological or Philosophical discussion?
This is the most common form of abortion in NC.
What is a nonsurgical (chemical) abortion?
The percentage of Pro-Choice Americans that agree there should be some restrictions on abortion.
What is 72%?
When someone responds to an argument by misrepresenting their position.
What is Strawmanning?
Thomas Aquinas used this stage, defined by Aristotle, as the first movements felt by a pregnant woman, where the soul was received by a person.
What is quickening?
The 2019 Stanford and Northwestern University study on persuasion found the most persuasive people know how to find these two things.
What is common ground and common values?
The type of abortion is done according to this criteria.
What is age of the unborn child?
A chemical abortion consists of these two medications.
What is mifepristone and misoprostol.
These three arguments that fall under the Right to Refuse Argument.
What is The Responsibility Objection, The Obligation Not to Kill and Abortion as Self Defense.
Possessing equal rights, such as an equal right to life, can differentiate us from squirrels because of this.
What is serious moral status?
The Trot out a Toddler approach utilizes this ABCD formula.
What is
Affirm the Concern,
Brace them for a weird question,
Create a parallel situation,
Describe the Logic
North Carolina holds this infamous ranking as an Abortion Destination State with 36% of abortions performed on out of state residents.
What is the second most popular Abortion Destination State?