“If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not in fact making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couple?” Edwards said.
I’ve always thought it odd that people would ever reference nature when contemplating morality. Nature is evil. Beautiful, able to give rise to glorious wonders, and yet the most abjectly evil thing to exist. If your best argument is an appeal to nature, then you’re probably wrong.
I’m glad I see more people these days making arguments the way you are; granting the opponent’s entire premise and then showing it doesn’t matter. It’s an absolutely deviating rhetorical tactic, and one I’m fond of.