{"id":146347,"date":"2022-06-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=146347"},"modified":"2022-06-13T07:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:19:30","slug":"pro-aborts-an-example-of-cognitive-dissonance-just-like-flat-earthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/pro-aborts-an-example-of-cognitive-dissonance-just-like-flat-earthers","title":{"rendered":"Pro-aborts: an example of cognitive dissonance just like flat-earthers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is a growing stream of people with little knowledge of physics who justify with the most outlandish reasons the notion that the Earth is still flat, as was believed before the ancient Greeks. Particularly laughable is the Flat Earth Society<\/a>, which also has a large group of na\u00efve people who follow it on social networks<\/a>. It is a typical case of cognitive dissonance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With very similar reasons and behaviors, there are millions of people driven by self-styled “progressive” ideologies who, under the pressure of huge amounts of money<\/a>, claim the lives of millions of people around the world every year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gigantic eugen<\/a>i<\/a>c genocide<\/a> can only be maintained on the basis of an enormous cognitive dissonance created to make people believe that the human being, in its early stages of gestation inside its mother’s womb, is not human and therefore, is not worthy of being protected; nor is it a subject of rights, unlike the mother who carries it within her. In some languages, these people are called fetoplanists<\/em>, since they have many points in common with terraplanists<\/em> (flat-earthers). We will refer to them here as pro-aborts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pro-aborts present cognitive processes to justify immoral actions<\/a>. The four textbook symptoms are present:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Moral justification of the immoral act.<\/li>
  2. Denial and rejection of individual responsibility.<\/li>
  3. Denial and rejection of negative consequences.<\/li>
  4. Denial and rejection of the victim.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Let’s look at each of these points separately and, specifically, how they apply on abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Moral justification of the immoral act<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    It consists of reinterpreting the immoral act as an action that will be beneficial to achieve acceptable objectives according to moral and social norms. There are several strategies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Application of utilitarianism that legitimizes action. The superior end justifies the immoral act.<\/li>
    2. Highlighting the comparative advantages of the immoral act in relation to actions committed by others that would have been worse. For example, the non-intervention of a witness to an act of violence is justified by arguing that the lack of commitment is much less serious than the immoral act itself. <\/li>
    3. It can also be oriented towards the selection of the hackneyed “lesser evil”. Between the two evils, the one that produces the least damage is taken.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      In the case of abortion<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      The child is killed to save the psycho-affective health of the mother. Faced with the two evils: killing the child and saving the mother, the harm caused (abortion) must be minimized and the potential evil that is avoided must be maximized: the psycho-affective health of the mother, although this is a nebulous and elusive concept that is difficult to quantify objectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The decision-making capacity of the mother overrides the decision-making capacity of the unborn woman. The US Supreme Court, in 1973, decided that the woman, protected by the right to privacy\u2013under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment\u2013could choose whether or not to continue with the pregnancy; that right to privacy was considered a fundamental right protected by the US Constitution and therefore could not be legislated against by any state. This is the famous Roe v. Wade ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It is also used to justify the exceptional use of the act as a last resort when all other means have failed. This act is justified, despite its moral rejection, because it is an extraordinary decision to which the “victim-mother” has been forced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      To amplify the potential damage caused, sociology and statistics focused on the atrocious sufferings of mothers and the “fact” that a child that is “unwanted” would grow in an unloving environment, therefore abortion as an “act of mercy” would spare the child these future sufferings, which he or she is guaranteed to have and which will be very hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Denial and rejection of individual responsibility<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      The individual responsible for committing an immoral act maintains that he or she did not intend to harm the victim(s) by his or her behavior. Normally, the individual says that circumstances led him to commit the immoral act. The perpetrator perceives himself as being controlled from the outside and, therefore, without any responsibility for his immoral acts. This external control has many names: society, poverty, one’s sexual condition…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It is also possible to find cases in which the individual responsible for committing an immoral act perceives himself as an unimportant part of the group. As a result, he perceives that his actions have no major consequences and that, in the end, he is not hurting anyone. After all, everyone does it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Among the most common examples, people usually resort to clich\u00e9s such as shoplifters who argue that shoplifting is not important because many people do it (“everyone does it”) and at the same time, there are also thieves who steal much more than us, such as corrupt politicians (a minor part of the group), as well as people who do not care about the environment because no one does it and all in all, I have only thrown one can in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In the case of abortion<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      Among the most common examples used by people who have had abortions are clich\u00e9s such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n