In a column urging feminists to make room within their ranks for pro-lifers, she writes:
[M]any women who have had babies find it harder, if not impossible, to see abortion as nothing more than a “choice” to eliminate an inconvenience.
I fall into this camp, though I’ve never been able to support reversing Roe v. Wade, which makes me unpopular with nearly everyone. Apart from legal arguments as to whether the Supreme Court ruling was constitutionally appropriate, I’m libertarian-leaning enough to insist that government should have no role in determining what anyone does with his or her body — as long as no one else is hurt.
Save your “ah-ha’s!” until the end, please. Obviously, the forming human life is destroyed, and thus I also can make a human rights argument against abortion. I think we should.
Unpopular with nearly everyone? Not with me–it helps that Parker quoted me in her column–and not with the public, either: A lot of Americans fall into the uncomfortable-with-abortion-but-pro-Roe camp. I do hope that they move, and she moves, further in the pro-life direction. And while she may not be willing to support “reversing” Roe, I’d like to think that she would at least be willing to see the Supreme Court scale back its protection for abortion: to let legislatures, for example, restrict late-term abortions.






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