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Except for the most diehard “pro-choice” activists, just about everyone believes that sex-selective abortion — effectively, killing an unborn girl because she’s a girl — is wrong.
But under the regime ushered in by Roe v. Wade, in which abortion for any reason is legally permissible, would a ban on sex-selective abortion pass constitutional muster?
That’s the question pondered by pro-life law professor Michael Stokes Paulsen in a fascinating article this week in Public Discourse:
If abortion merely removes unwanted tissue, its gender does not matter. But if gender matters, it must be because the unborn living being in the womb is already a human child, not merely “potential” life. The issue of sex-selection abortion thus challenges the very “it”-ness of the living human embryo or fetus killed by abortion—the implicit non-humanity of the fetus that underlies most arguments for allowing abortion. It is a girl or a boy—a member of the human family, albeit an extremely vulnerable one, whose life hangs in the balance. Acknowledge the humanity of the fetus and the regime of Roe collapses.
Prof. Paulsen goes on to say there is “no better litmus test issue over life” and no better time for pressing this issue than during an election year: [Continue reading ...]
Gloria Steinem gave a talk last week at a $100-a-head fundraiser for Planned Parenthood in Princeton, New Jersey, and make no mistake: she didn’t fail to bring the way over-the-top rhetoric:
“There is no organization in this country or the world that is more important than Planned Parenthood” — a proclamation that self-evidently illustrates how out-of-touch with reality she is.
Yet there is another remark Steinem made at the event that merits our consideration. Writer Michele Angermiller reports that Steinem told the crowd “she can’t believe that people in 2011 are still debating such issues as contraception, abortion and a woman’s right to choose.”
Think about that for a minute. [Continue reading ...]
The former head of Catholics for a Free Choice [sic], Frances Kissling, wrote recently at Feministe to express her disappointment with a new Missouri law that requires abortion facilities to offer ultrasounds and information on embryonic and fetal development to women seeking abortions.
Kissling is particularly incensed that the law will require abortion-bound women to be told these words:
The life of each human being begins at conception. Abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being.
Her response:
Once again, a state legislature thinks it can settle a question that no philosopher, lawyer scientist or other expert has ever been able to figure out.