abortion is killing, so what? redux

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 30 07:09:37 PST 2003


I've been involved with professional
> feminists (in foundations
> >and related groups) who simply couldn't hear the
> thought that the fetus is
> >snuffed in an abortion. They blanched at the mere
> suggestion that a
> >developing human with a beating heart is wiped out,
> and they of course
> >belittled my opinion (which at the time was more
> devil's advocate) because I
> >was a man and the issue was none of my business.
> Pro-choice?
>

I've always been puzzled by those bumper stickers that read, "Abortion stops a beating heart." Of course it does, that's the point. If the cog dissonance effect weren't so great, I'd be tempted to put one of those stickers on my car along with one that reads, "Keep abortion safe and legal." jks

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