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Posters depicting in utero fetuses raised eyebrows and a small uproar last week. One of the posters, the second in a series created by Harvard Right to Life (HRL), featured the picture of a fetus named Elena with the words, “I’m 25 days old...and my heart already BEATS...
...posters from this semester are getting torn down left and right,” said HRL President Meghan E. Grizzle ’07. “Apparently people find the picture of a fetus gruesome and I don’t understand why, because we’re not showing pictures of an aborted fetus or a dead baby,” Grizzle said. She added that HRL had to constantly replace the posters that were removed from displays across campus...
...leave aside for a moment the political stakes. What strikes me reading the bill is that this is a case where the Purists have carried the day. If a fetus is an innocent life deserving the full protection of the law, then the circumstances of conception, no matter how tragic, are irrelevant. Punish the rapist, they say, not the baby. Even the bill?s opponents agree that it has a kind of logical integrity. If this effort succeeds it will redraw the battle lines in the 30 Years Abortion...
...officially called dilation and extraction (D&X)—is rare, she claims it accounts for 1 percent of all abortions. This is an incorrect statistic; D&X procedures account for only 0.17 percent of all abortions. Such procedures are not performed on healthy women whose fetuses would be able to survive indefinitely outside the mother, as Ms. Itoh claims. They are generally only done if there are serious mental or physical health problems related to the pregnancy, such as the fetus suffering from a condition that would render it unable to live outside the womb. And although...
Most importantly, arguing about when life begins or whether or not a 20-week-old fetus is a “child” is unproductive. What our society needs is to understand the reasons why women feel they must need abortions and address those reasons by providing extensive education for all and enacting policies that provide financial support and social support for pregnant women and parents. We need to redirect the attention away from these rare but usually necessary procedures and onto issues impacting those who have already been born—for example, addressing the needs...