Well, first, my life is not the same thing as stories of aliens simply because the presence of aliens has not been established by physical, measurable, or repeatable evidence.
Which at best moves the stories closer to the realm of possibility.
The existence of illegal abortions as a source of gang income has been established, it is not a very new idea. It goes on many places today in other countries. So rather than a tale of aliens, my story is more similar to someone giving supplemental testimony in court, supporting physical evidence: "Yes I knew this person and they were maimed". True, I might be telling the truth or lying.
Further "they" might be telling the truth or lying.
I could post a link from someone else who wrote a book about it, but how would that be more valid than personal experience?
I don't know you. Further I don't know the people who you are talking about. Your testimony would not be allowed in a court of law for logical reasons.
Aliens have not been established by evidence, so if I spoke of seeing them you would be right to question that.
Skepticism would dictate that we not accept hearsay (you didn't actually participate in these did you?). Further skepticism would dictate that I just not accept your word for it. The aliens are just an extreme to demonstrate the folly of accepting such evidence. That Aliens are less likely to be real doesn't validate what you are saying.
But meet the 18th st gang:
http://www.nagia.org/18th_street.htm
They would certainly welcome a new business opportunity in a community near you. Sort of an appeal to emotion? Maybe. Politics seems that way though, always part emotion.
How does this prove your thesis?
Even such a loaded topic like abortion - murder is exactly what the law says it is, no more or less. We put people to death for crimes, and send people off to war, neither is called murder. So murder is a legal definition. Some kinds of abortion are not defined by law as murder, so where is the consistency of people who are against abortion but for war or capital punishment?
Not a clue where you are going with this.
Politics is simply not purely discovered by being skeptical...
No but the truth is. I'm sorry but this is the same kind of clap trap I hear from my Bishop. "God can't be discovered by being skeptical."
...it is also a product of emotions and feelings.
I am a very emotional person. However I realize that the truth isn't found in emotion. We should be wary of our emotions. Emotions lead to all sorts of bad things like mob justice.
Part of those feelings are bound up in our personal experiences of life. I might disagree with Luke for instance, but I respect his personal experiences and their contribution to his values.
I'm prepared to respect your personal experiences. So far as it relates to this topic you have only given us second hand information. But what is even more important than that it is still anecdotal.
Look, you art trying to establish a proposition:
Life was ugly for poor women who had abortions then.
There are all sorts of problems with this statement. What is "ugly"? Is life not "ugly" for poor women today? How did the life of a poor woman before Roe living in America compare to a poor woman living in the 3rd world?
Assuming we accept this value "ugly" and BTW, I don't have any idea what it means in this context. I can speculate. How do you prove "ugly"? Well you offer us anecdote. But here are the problems, how do the exeriences of 2 or 3 individuals represent the majority? How do we know that these individuals told you the truth? How do we even know that they existed?
If I tell you that I know several poor women who opted to not have abortions and gave their children up for adoption and were very happy that they did not have abortions will that prove something?
If I tell you that I know several poor women who had legal abortions and they are very depressed and despondent for having done so will that prove something?
