Regardless of any argument to restrict or ban legal abortions one thing remains an absolute constant. Abortions will happen no matter what. Abortions have occurred no matter what. Even if you shut down every clinic in the entire United States (or the world), abortions will be performed, period. If you honestly think that women who need/choose/want abortions deserve to risk their life for one than you can go ahead and call yourself a misogynist but you cannot call yourself pro-life.
You can say that you would never personally have an abortion but that doesn't make you pro life. What the hell is pro life anyway? Pro choice is not pro death and anti choice doesn't say it all either. If you believe that women should be denied a safe and legal abortion you are not protecting the unborn nor the rights of said fetus. You certainly aren't protecting the life of the women who is actually a real live out of womb person.
A fetus is not a baby. It is a pre-human. It has the potential to become a human. If you believe that life begins at fertilization than to you any human cells are considered alive, scientifically and any part of the human body has the equipment of a potential human being. Author Leonard Peikoff puts it this way:
"That tiny growth, that mass of protoplasm, exists as a part of a woman's body. It is not an independently existing, biologically formed organism, let alone a person. That which lives within the body of another can claim no right against its host. Rights belong only to individuals, not to collectives or to parts of an individual.(http://www.peikoff.com/essays_and_articles/abortion-rights-are-pro-life/).
Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged was strongly against the term pro life as well as the idea that anyone except the individual women should decide whether or not to carry a fetus to full term.
"Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?("Of Living Death" The voice of reason, p58,59.)"
The pro life movement in and of itself is filled with lies. Worse than that are the women who actively protest and fight to deny all women safe legal abortions and then have an abortion when they find themselves in the same situation. Even typing in the phrase on google "pro life women who have abortions" you will find out several horrifying things. One is that there really are women who have chosen to have an abortion that still consider themselves pro life (their abortion doesn't count). Also disturbing is the amount of women who will tell you how much their abortion ruined their lives and thus want to deny any women from making the same decision. These are women who chose to have an abortion for whatever reason and because they regret that decision they want to take away the option for other women. Case in point, in the instance of the landmark case Roe v. Wade, Norma McCorvey (i.e. Jane Roe) later came out as anti-abortion and wanted the Supreme Court to overturn the decision.
All in all, I don't know what possessives individuals to dedicate themselves to "saving the unborn" from the clutches of terrible evil women who want to deny their biological destiny. Imagine how much money and time is spent by organizations lobbying to take away the rights of others or printing giant posters with blown up pictures of partial fetuses. Imagine how much effort and resources are eaten up by the constant protests at any known location known to provide abortions. For now I can only offer this, perhaps it has not crossed the minds of these individuals that this general fervor on their part over "life" may well be better spent on those children who are already alive.
To be continued...
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