Respectful of Otters: The Only Good Abortion
Respectful of Otters discusses a June 26 New Yorker piece about the referendum drive to overturn South Dakota's abortion ban. She talks about a point in the article that's always bothered me about some anti-abortion laws - those that say it's illegal except for rape and incest, and the life of the mother ...A person who professes to be pro-life but insists on a rape-and-incest exception (which covers most pro-life politicians in this country, including President Bush) is saying one of two things: either it is justifiable to kill children in some circumstances, or what grows in a woman's uterus is a child if the woman had sex voluntarily but not if she was forced into it. [...]From a simple logical perspective, I would think anti-abortionists (which I am not) should be anti-abortion in all circumstances. Otherwise, their stand just doesn't make sense except from a political point of view.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 9:32 AM
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