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Obama Makes Illogical Pro-abortion Arguments

On January 22, 2016, the 43rd anniversary of the horrible Roe v. Wade decision concerning abortion in America, President Obama made a statement advocating for abortion (click here to access statement) .  President Obama's statement reflects the standard talking points of pro-death abortion advocates.  Let's think through his statement line by line. First he says Roe v. Wade "affirmed a woman's freedom to make her own choices about her body and her health."  This is the "pro-choice" argument.  The problem is that it isn't logical.  No woman in America has complete freedom of choice when it comes to her own body or her own health.  For instance, there are laws against drug abuse.  A woman doesn't have the legal right to make her own choice about her body in this instance.  The law takes that choice away.  She is not allowed to abuse drugs simply because that's what she chooses to do with her body.  A second reason that this is illogical is th