{"id":1728849,"date":"2022-11-07T20:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728849"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:35:04","slug":"ben-shapiro-outlines-strongest-case-for-being-pro-life-on-lex-fridman-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-outlines-strongest-case-for-being-pro-life-on-lex-fridman-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Outlines \u2018Strongest Case\u2019 For Being Pro-Life On Lex Fridman Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-shapiro-outlines-strongest-case-for-being-pro-life-on-lex-fridman-podcast%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728849&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Daily Wire co-founder and author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/author\/ben-shapiro\">Ben Shapiro<\/a> outlined the \u201cstrongest case\u201d for being pro-life Monday, which he said includes a \u201cbright-line moral rule\u201d about when life begins that \u201cshifts the burden of proof\u201d to the person arguing for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro was asked to lay out the pro-life case during a wide-ranging multi-hour interview with Lex Fridman, a computer scientist, MIT professor, and podcast host.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018strongest case\u2019 for pro-life is that from conception a human life has been created; it is a human life with potential,\u201d Shapiro responded to Fridman. \u201cThat human life with potential now has an independent interest in its own existence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clear dividing line between a-human-life-exists and a-human-life-does-not-exist is the biological creation of an independent human life with its own DNA strands, etc., which happens at conception,\u201d the \u201cRight Side of History\u201d author explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you acknowledge that there is that independent human life with potential \u2014 and I keep calling it that because people sometimes say \u2018potential human life\u2019; it\u2019s not a potential human life; it\u2019s a human life that is not developed yet to the full extent that it will develop \u2014 once you say that, and once you say that it has its own interest, now the burden of proof is to explain why bodily autonomy ought to allow for the snuffing out of that human life, if we believe that human life ought not to be killed for \u2018no good reason.\u2019 \u2026 The burden of proof is now shifted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to draw any other line that doesn\u2019t seem somewhat arbitrary,\u201d Shapiro offered. \u201cIf you said independent heartbeat, well, people have pacemakers; if you say brain function, people have various levels of brain function as adults; if you say viability, babies are not viable after they are born. If I left a newborn baby on a table and did not take care of it, it would be dead in two days. Once you start getting into sort of these lines, it starts to get very fuzzy very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re looking for sort of a bright-line moral rule, that would be the bright-line moral rule,\u201d Shapiro posited. \u201cThat\u2019s sort of the pro-life case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fridman followed-up, asking if the question about when life begins is religious or scientific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen life begins is a question of science,\u201d Shapiro quickly responded. \u201cWhen that life becomes valuable enough for people to want to protect it is going to be a question that is beyond science \u2014 science doesn\u2019t have moral judgments to make about the value of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire co-founder and author Ben Shapiro outlined the \u201cstrongest case\u201d for being pro-life Monday, which he said includes a \u201cbright-line moral rule\u201d about when life begins that \u201cshifts the burden of proof\u201d to the person arguing for abortion. Shapiro was asked to lay out the pro-life case during a wide-ranging multi-hour interview with Lex &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1728852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}