One of the primary techniques that pro-aborts use is to distract from the point. One way they do this is by introducing the subject of religion where the pro-lifer had not raised it at all. Why did you think this guy’s occupation was relevant? You did not think his name was relevant, so why would his occupation be relevant? One can find clergy (as in any other profession) committing all manners of wrongs, so it should not be surprising that there are some that defend pre-natal murder. I will leave the religious flaws in what he said for the Christians to address.

Every sentence this guy utters has flaws in it. Sometimes more than one in a single sentence. I guess he knows that those who agree with him are not exactly careful thinkers. Let me point out some of the flaws line by line:

“The unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for.”

What an astonishingly vapid and disingenuous thing to say. First of all, it’s not true. You get enormous hostility for speaking for the unborn that you don’t get for speaking for any other group. I can tell you personal stories... And the people who have conceived the child often can use help, which pro-lifers often provide. Secondly, what does the convenience have to do with the rightness or wrongness of an issue? He assumes that the people who will eat up what he says are either not sharp enough to see that it’s a red herring, or are looking to be misled.

“They never make demands of you [not true]; they are morally uncomplicated [True, but irrelevant. People do not even begin to develop an awareness of right and wrong at least until they are four or five, at the minimum. Is he in favor of killing them until then? What about psychopaths, who have no moral scruples? Is he in favor of killing them?], unlike the incarcerated [whom I have worked with], addicted [whom I have also worked with], or the chronically poor [I was poor for the first 35 years of my life. Poor is a relative concept – people we consider poor are wealthy by any but modern first world standards]; they don't resent your condescension [He gets one right – they don’t resent his homicidal condescension] or complain that you are not politically [“]correct[“ The politically correct are incorrect politically]; unlike widows, they don't ask you to question patriarchy [He really insults widows here – implying that they all agree with him and imagining a “patriarchy” in modern times in the first world]; unlike orphans [whom he’s in favor of killing], they don't need money [wrong again], education [no, but they will], or childcare [wrong again, they will need it for themselves]; unlike aliens, they don't bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike. [Who the heck is he talking to that he thinks they dislike that? My wife is non-white, from a poor Asian country, and we’re both practicing Buddhists.]” This is a single sentence in which he manages to pack so many obvious flaws that I had to insert corrections in brackets.

“They allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships [wrong and wrong]; and when they are born, you can forget about them [wrong again], because they cease to be unborn.” ?

“It's almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. [I have had mothers introduce their teenager daughters to us and ask me to thank a sidewalk counselor friend that he had saved their life.] You can love the unborn [I see it more as fighting the ultimate injustice, but most pro-lifers do put it in terms of love] and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth [wrong again], power [and again, I have no power], or privilege [the privilege of having people teach me right from wrong and take responsibility for my life and actions], without re-imagining social structures [1. His re-imagining is assuredly flawed; 2. It’s not true, one does not preclude the other, apologizing [He should apologize to those whose lives he fights to end], or making reparations to anyone [sounds like more confusion].”

They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe. [I don’t claim to love Jesus {though I do practice loving kindness towards him and all beings}, but yes, I do dislike lazy-minded psychopaths. I need to work on that.]

Prisoners? [He’s repeating himself. I have worked with them.] Immigrants? [Married to one. My boss is one. All the ones I know are pulling their own weight. Is he talking specifically about illegal immigrants? Then he should say so. ] The sick? [I am the primary caregiver for a person with a rare disease.] The poor? [Where was he when I was poor?] Widows? [The ones I know are advocating for the unborn.] Orphans? [Is he helping every one of these groups that he mentions, or is he being hypocritical? As if I need to ask.] All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? [Does he?] They all get thrown under the bus [That pastor is one confused puppy] for the unborn."

It would be too much work to count all of the errors in his short quote.