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A Weekly Column By Walter B. Hoye II
Conflict Of
Interest
In the abortion debate, is there a "Conflict of Interest"within the Black community and among her leaders?
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Erotetics
"There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact." Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (Scottish writer, creator of the
detective Sherlock Holmes, 1859-1930)
Erotetics (Greek, ertsis, that which pertains to questions)
is a part of logic that is devoted to the logical and pragmatic
analysis of questions and their answers. Erotetic logic
evaluates the principles that guide the presuppositions at
the root of questions such as When does a proposition answer a
question (correctly or incorrectly)? What's wrong with questions thatpresuppose false propositions (such as "Have you stopped beating your
spouse?")? Do questions bear truth-values? Or the question I hear from
abortion minded women only steps away from the door of an abortion
clinic Will you take care of me and my baby?
Erotetic Logic
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS (15
February 1861 30 December 1947)
Erotetic logic starts with discerning whether or not the
question Will you take care of me and my baby? is a
syntactically proper question (i.e., a WFQ, meaning a "well-
formed question") or a syntactically improper question (i.e., an
IFQ, meaning an "ill-formed question"). From here several linear paths can be
taken in an attempt to understand why an abortion minded woman, only steps
away from having the life of the baby in her womb terminated and the horribly
dismembered body parts of her child sucked down into a biohazardous waste
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bag, is asking the question Will you take care of me and my baby?
Are We Ergo an Erotetic Pro-Life Movement?
"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer." Thomas Carlyle (4 December
1795 5 February 1881)
As we enter the fortieth (40th) year of legalized abortion in
America, the Pro-Life movement has been looking for ways
to end abortion. For almost four (4) decades we havepainstakingly devoted ourselves to logically and
pragmatically analyzing ways to end abortion. We have
employed the best minds in the world to carefully,
diligently, meticulously work through the data to discover a
way to end abortion. We have wrestled with the principles that guide the
presuppositions at the root of the abortion debate and over the course of
14,245 days fought to elect Presidents, Representatives and Senators to
hammer out a solution. As I look back at our efforts to end abortion and
ponder why an abortion minded woman, only steps away from having the life
of the baby in her womb terminated is asking the question Will you take
care of me and my baby? I wonder if after all of our sermons, prayers and
sacrificial giving, the reason why an abortion minded woman, is
asking Will you take care of me and my baby? is simply because, she
is in need of someone to care for her and her baby? 1
Brothers, we really need to talk.
Reference(s):
1. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) "the reasons women give for having an abortion underscore their
understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. Three-fourths of women cite concern for orresponsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would
interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are
having problems with their husband or partner.", May 2010, "Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States"
(http://bit.ly/9GH9ch).
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