It strikes me as truly creepy for liberals to welcome speculation about a connection between legalized abortion and falling crime.
This jumped out and bit me yesterday from my inbox...
"It strikes me as truly creepy for liberals to welcome speculation about a connection between legalized abortion and falling crime.
But it's of a piece with their ever-hardening attitudes on abortion. For some time after Roe v. Wade, defenders of legal abortion used to argue that a fetus wasn't really a human baby -- it was just a "mass of cells" or "tissue."
The clearer it became that Roe v. Wade had legalized the killing of recognizably human babies -- partly because of ultrasound, and partly because younger and younger babies were able to survive premature births -- the more abortion was all about the absolute choice of the woman to control her own body. That right, it was frankly argued, outweighed the fetus's right to life.
But now the "choice" argument has run into some problems, too. Medical students don't want to train to be abortionists; some pharmacists don't want to fill prescriptions for abortifacient medicines, even if they lose their jobs over it. The "pro-choice" folks don't like those choices, and some of them don't see why they should be allowed.
Now some of them appear to be flirting with a eugenic justification for abortion.
-- Elizabeth Kantor, Managing Editor"
"It strikes me as truly creepy for liberals to welcome speculation about a connection between legalized abortion and falling crime.
But it's of a piece with their ever-hardening attitudes on abortion. For some time after Roe v. Wade, defenders of legal abortion used to argue that a fetus wasn't really a human baby -- it was just a "mass of cells" or "tissue."
The clearer it became that Roe v. Wade had legalized the killing of recognizably human babies -- partly because of ultrasound, and partly because younger and younger babies were able to survive premature births -- the more abortion was all about the absolute choice of the woman to control her own body. That right, it was frankly argued, outweighed the fetus's right to life.
But now the "choice" argument has run into some problems, too. Medical students don't want to train to be abortionists; some pharmacists don't want to fill prescriptions for abortifacient medicines, even if they lose their jobs over it. The "pro-choice" folks don't like those choices, and some of them don't see why they should be allowed.
Now some of them appear to be flirting with a eugenic justification for abortion.
-- Elizabeth Kantor, Managing Editor"
posted by Sebosmile @ 2:54 PM
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