The anti-abortionists' strategy involves focusing solely on the fetus and describing the abortion in gruesome detail. Their professed compassion for the fetus apparently leaves no room for considering the woman's health and happiness.
For them, waving a picture of a bloody, mangled fetus constitutes an argument. If so, then so does waving a picture of a woman whose future was ruined because she was denied an abortion—or of a woman bloody and mangled by a "back-alley" abortion.
A picture is not an argument—and should not be allowed as a cover-up.
While anti-abortionists' attacks are primarily focused on rarely performed late-term abortions, they zealously want all abortions banned. Helen Alvare, a spokeswoman for the Catholic Bishops and a staunch enemy of D&X, has declared, "In a moral sense all abortions are equally awful."
According to anti-abortionist dogma, God places the soul in the womb at conception. Hence, via a leap of faith, the fertilized egg—a tiny cell—is granted the status of human being. At that moment, the woman's status is demoted to that of slave and breeding mare—and her womb becomes God's property (which, in practice, means the government's property).
The rights of the woman have therefore been sacrificed to the alleged rights of the fetus. According to this dogma, abortion is murder at any stage of the pregnancy (which explains why some "pro-lifers" feel morally sanctioned to kill doctors and bomb abortion clinics).
The anti-abortionists' war against "partial-birth" abortions is a smokescreen to ban all abortions. Abortion is a woman's moral right. "Pro-choicers" must reject compromise and fight any law prohibiting abortion on principle—the principle of individual rights—the principle upon which this pro-rights country was founded.
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