The anti-abortion movement preached about a moral crisis and was unprepared for what it unleashed. onesarahjones writes
Anti-abortion activists gather in front of the Supreme Court in 1984. Photo: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images For decades, the anti-abortion movement depicted the nation in stark, bloody terms. Abortion is a genocide, a new Holocaust, a contemporary moral crisis like no other, they claimed. The procedure was not only the product of an individual woman’s sin but also a symptom of a culture gone to hell.
“If a 10-year-old became pregnant as a result of rape and it was threatening her life, then that’s not an abortion,” Catherine Glenn Foster of Americans United for Life told Representative Eric Swalwell. “So it would not fall under any abortion restriction in our nation.” She is incorrect on both counts. Any procedure that terminates a pregnancy is an abortion. A life-saving termination, such as in the case of ectopic pregnancy, is an abortion.
“The logic of abortion has been that you have to pick a side between the baby or the mother,” the Catholic writer Leah Libresco Sargeant claimed in a piece for the New York Times. Yet this is precisely the logic imposed by the anti-abortion movement. In the view espoused by abortion opponents such as Bopp, there is only one side to take — that of the fetus. The pregnant adult or child must sacrifice their own well-being to carry a pregnancy to term.
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