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movement and doesn’t consider himself to be part of it, his condemnation of the abortionists is much more telling, because more knowledgeable. It is astonishing that so much self-righteous fervor could be mobilized in behalf of killing innocent human beings.

The trick is performed, of course, by acting as if the mother is the only person involved in the transaction, and treating the fetus as an inconvenient blob of protoplasm unworthy of discussion, much less protection by law. This was the approach adopted by Justice Blackman in Roe v. Wade, who concluded that since he couldn’t tell whether the fetus was a “person,” it was okay to kill it. Nathanson rains contempt on the decision as a travesty of medical knowledge, but it is an even greater travesty of Western ethics, reversing the centuries-old commitment of our legal system to the protection of innocent life.

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movement and doesn’t consider himself to be part of it, his condemnation of the abortionists is much more telling, because more knowledgeable. It is astonishing that so much self-righteous fervor could be mobilized in behalf of killing innocent human beings.

The trick is performed, of course, by acting as if the mother is the only person involved in the transaction, and treating the fetus as an inconvenient blob of protoplasm unworthy of discussion, much less protection by law. This was the approach adopted by Justice Blackman in Roe v. Wade, who concluded that since he couldn’t tell whether the fetus was a “person,” it was okay to kill it. Nathanson rains contempt on the decision as a travesty of medical knowledge, but it is an even greater travesty of Western ethics, reversing the centuries-old commitment of our legal system to the protection of innocent life.