Anti-abortion activists always point out that every human life is sacred and has an unconditional value, and therefore must not be killed.
Obviously this applies only to the unborn (!) life, because when a baby is born, it is immediately bombarded by viruses, bacteria and other germs, which under natural conditions (i.e. before science discovered vaccinations or antibiotics) ensure that about half of the "holy" little creatures will die before their fifth birthday of whooping cough, malaria, measles, smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, dengue fever, cholera, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, bilharzia, etc... . The punch line: all these pathogens were created by God, the Father in Heaven, who supposedly loves his children so much.
So if abortions are a "pre-natal holocaust," as anti-abortion activists always call it, then the millions of deaths of little children caused by God-created germs is a much larger post-natal holocaust, and God is less a loving father than a cruel cosmic Dr. Mengele making experiments with human beings.
Try a few views of it from the bible. We see this so much differently today.
Well, that went in a direction I wasn't quite expecting. Their is a bit by George carlin about this subject that really hits the nail on the head. He focuses on human factors more so than natural ones.
[genius.com]
There's no point looking for logic in these things. For instance, if all life is sacred, how do you go out and cheer for the death penalty? How do you turn a blind eye to poverty? It's just a smokescreen for the Republican party takeover of evangelical religion.
God is a myth...therefore all arguments about whether or not he created anything is nonsensical. The religious can manage to defy logic in any argument, so trying to debate this with any believer is not advisable. What they profess to feel about the sanctity of life from conception is completely inconsistent with the regard they have for that life when it is actually born and becomes a real live person.