What Is the Fallacy Used in the Following Passage? "Liberals

question 15

Multiple Choice

What is the fallacy used in the following passage? "Liberals believe in abortion on demand, which means that killing a baby is permissible any time at all-at conception, in the second trimester, at infancy. Any of these would be appropriate times to kill a baby, says the liberal."

• A) appeal to the person
• B) begging the question
• C) straw man
• D) equivocation

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