Abortion Advocates and Absurd Arguments from Absurdity

political outcast ^ | 5-14-13 | Michael Minkoff

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Thus, irrational protest legislation abounds making it clear that the “war on women” will not stand. Notice that the Wilmington City Council did not fight for the personhood of an ovum. No. They want to make it clear: “You mess with our bodies, we’ll mess with yours.” Similarly ridiculous reductio ad absurdum legislation was proposed to protest a Virginia bill (which has passed since then) that required women to have an ultrasound before they were allowed to have an abortion. The protest bill, in typically self-satisfied style, required that men have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before they got treatment for erectile dysfunction. Apparently feminists have no problem implying that the common denominator between viagra and abortion is the continuation of consequenceless recreational sex. And here I thought it was about women’s rights.

No one seems to get it though. The vast majority of anti-abortionists aren’t trying to control women. They’re trying to save lives. Because we obviously think there is a significant difference between a sperm or an ovum on one hand and a human embryo—a human being—on the other. And honestly, whatever the abortion advocates might say to the contrary, they know there is a difference too. It’s hard not to recognize the difference. In an excellent article on the ethics of stem-cell research, I read these insightful words: