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...claiming that it benefits both mother (right to abortion is right to life for her) and child (better to be terminated than born into non-ideal circumstances). I thank MacKenzie for placing abortion on the same historical trajectory as slavery, and I look forward to the eventual emancipation of unborn children...
...will never know that it might have lived. Its mother, however, is conscious. The characterization of those who have abortions as cold, callow murderers is an unfair rhetorical ploy. The great majority of those who elect to have abortions do so not out of a joy of slaughtering unborn babies, but out of necessity. They inevitably agonize over the decision, both before and for many years afterwards. Yet, for many reasons, they simply cannot have a child. To bring such a child into the world—a world which, at present, cannot support it?...
...larger error committed by nearly every anti-abortion activist is, however, that their arguments consider only the unborn fetus, without mention of the woman in whose womb it resides, as if she is no more than an incubator for this precious life. Indeed, “life” is the word used by every upstanding anti-abortion activist. But it is not life that’s at stake, it is the potential for life. The law, both in word and in spirit, rightly protects life itself and not the promise...
...Irish Constitution is to address the so-called X case (after an unnamed woman) by rolling back a controversial 1992 Supreme Court ruling that equated the threat of suicide with physical risk to the woman's life. The amendment also formally defines abortion for the first time, protecting unborn human life not after conception, but "after implantation in the womb." That moderate definition would allow access to the morning-after pill and appeal to the middle ground in the conservative context of Ireland. But it has also upset some hardline pro-lifers, such as influential M.E.P. Dana Rosemary Scallon...
...Precious feet” are symbolic of the advocacy of pro-lifers for the unborn. Furthermore, they serve to remind the public of the inevitable development of a fetus into a fully formed human infant. Finally, they represent a striking challenge to all women to truly demonstrate their power to choose by selecting virtue and intellectual honesty over a cowardly retreat from shame and adversity...