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...many who bemoan the evils of abortion, including the author of a recent editorial in these pages, a common tactic to elicit sympathy for their cause is employing harrowing imagery of the abortion itself. They talk, for example, of sharp hooks ladling the fetus out of the womb. Such an image tugs on any reader’s heartstrings; no one wants to see a baby impaled on a sharp hook. The problem is, however, that this picture is a gross misrepresentation of reality: the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester with a vacuum-like device?...
...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...
...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, who are now in a de facto "No" alliance with their...
...white picket fence I would have gone to school every day since I was four years old,” she says, her hands resting briefly on her womb...
Already, one can see enlightened opinion on the subject taking its predictably muddled shape. At least for now, no one wants to come out in favor of “reproductive cloning,” in which a cloned embryo would actually be implanted in the womb and then brought to term. But “therapeutic cloning,” which involves creating embryos in a petri dish, letting them grow just long enough to extract stem cells, and then killing them, is being hailed as a morally acceptable—nay, laudable—step forward for what...