Genocide Awareness Project re: abortion

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Unlike illogical men on the left who consider fetuses to be babies, 
anti-abortion right-wingers have a more logical position.  They argue 
that what is going on today is genocide.  For the last couple of 
days, the Ohio State University main campus was visited by 
anti-abortion activists for the "Center for Bio-Ethical Reform," 
which brought and set up a giant traveling exhibit called "the 
Genocide Awareness Project" on the OSU oval -- see it at 
<http://www.abortionno.org/>.  Apparently very well funded, the 
exhibit featured huge glossy photos -- take a look at them at 
<http://www.abortionno.org/gap_signs.html>.

What's going on in the USA should be indeed considered genocide -- 
1.3 million women aborting fetuses per year, an estimated 43% of 
women having at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old 
-- *if* a fetus were to be considered a baby.  What should people do 
in response to genocide?  (1) Recommend sex education, contraception, 
adoption, public assistance for indigent mothers, etc.?  (2) Or make 
abortion a crime and/or take up arms against abortion providers and 
women who have abortion, as some on the right have tried to do (and 
succeeded in killing some abortion providers)?  Those who argue for 
(1) while arguing that a fetus is a baby cheapen the meanings of the 
words murder and genocide, by condoning those who commit them.
-- 
Yoshie

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