Pro-choice author William Saletan has recently posted a provocative article on how the pro-choice movement is in denial:
" Each time pro-lifers have tried in recent years to treat the embryo or fetus as a person in one context or another, pro-choicers have responded by treating the fetus as a nonentity. When pro-lifers sought to ban human cloning, pro-choicers offered a counterproposal that would require the destruction of every cloned embryo�which they referred to only as "an unfertilized blastocyst" and "the product of nuclear transplantation"�within two weeks of its creation. When pro-lifers sought to make fetuses eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, pro-choicers offered a counterproposal to expand the program's eligibility guidelines "as if any reference to targeted low-income children were a reference to targeted low-income pregnant women." The pro-choice alternative made no reference to the gestated entity until it was "born." It's a strategy of denial. And this week, it ran into too much reality. http://slate.msn.com/id/2097927/ " In addition to this, I would add the recent ballyhooed case of a woman causing the death of her unborn child by refusing a Caesarean Section who is now being accused of murder. While the facts of the case are in doubt, let us just assume for a moment that the facts are as prosecutors describe them - that the woman in question refused a C-Section because she feared the permanent scaring that would result. Even in this extreme case, however, isn't that decision every bit a woman's right under pro-choice logic? After all, how can anyone, be it you, the law, or anyone else argue that a woman has a right to consciously end the life of the unborn child she is carrying, but does not have the right to end the life of the unborn child she is carrying by refusing an unwanted medical procedure? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4509692/ Sadly, the "abortion logic" in this country has never been particularly consistent. JDG _______________________________________________________ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
