Instead, they have tried to avoid the moral issue and win with pragmatic arguments, like what women need, the economics of raising a child, etc.. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
(And before you berate me for saying I'm arguing for lawlessness, because people break the law anyway, no: I'm arguing, as with arming the police, that there is a good pragmatic argument for not doing so. (politics.co.uk)
However, when conservationists try to oppose polluters and developers solely with pragmatic arguments about the value to human welfare of, for example, gene pools in rain forests, they have been maneuvered into fighting on the same ground as their opponents. (religion-online.org)