We just had an election cycle when "hard line" pro-life GOP candidates trounced "Emily's list." Opinion polls are showing a shift in the public attitude, with abortion restrictions becoming the majority opinion.
Back alleys and coat-hangers had great effect when people were talking about an unseen "cellular mass." Now we have sophisticated pre-natal imaging, technology to keep children alive when delivered earlier and earlier, and surgery upon children still in the womb. The pro-life position is winning the image war against the pro-aborts, and all the indicators point to a continuation of the same.
It's time for the pro-aborts in the GOP to find another argument than practical politics, because it's becoming clear the pro-abortion position is becoming a liability rather than an asset.
Exploitation of early nascent life is already a reality. The fetal tissue harvesting industry, with more than a billion dollars in business receipts in 1999, already influences when a woman ought have the abortion she seeks since the later differentiation of tissues makes later rather than earlier killing and harvesting of the fetus more desireable to those who will profit from the killing. But that's just the beginning of the horror, in my honest opinion: 1) embryonic stem cell exploitation now demands the conception and killing of untold numbers of embryos; 2) therapeutic cloning is based on the in vitro fertilization/conception of individual human life, with killing and harvesting as the goal when the embryo has differentiated sufficiently to make specific tissue identification reliable. Both of these 'scientific advances' require our nation to accept the specious notion that an individual human life doesn't begin with at least first cell division (onset of mitosis) AND the wholesale exploitation of human life by conceiving it then killing it for harvesting of body parts. Folks, that is cannibalism by any other name, and the 'abortion as a right of women' with the 'cancelling of individual human right to life for the conceived child' is at the heart of it all.
If our nation does not accomplish a paradigm shift, to hold individual human life as something not to be exploited for 'medical' purposes, the cannibalism of embryonic stem cell harvesting and therapeutic cloning will be our future reality.
One further note: the modern left expects Americans to accept the notion that an embryo IS NOT an individual human life so that science can exploit that human life, BUT this is contradicted by the 'scientist's' own established goal for the human life to be exploited ... the scientist awaits cell division 'in the petri dish' to prove an individual human life has come to exist (an individual defined by its unique DNA that the scientists expects to exploit) else they wouldn't eventually implant the embryo or harvest the cells of that individual life for exploitative purposes! That the scientist seeks to conceive 'designer' individual human life --with therapeutic cloning-- only strengthens the truth that they, of all persons, know they are conceiving an individual human life for exploitation and death.