Virginia Poschel today: “As any biologist or obstetrician will tell you, we all “began” at the moment of our conception.”

No, they won’t tell you that.

“When you see an 11-week-old baby boy sucking his thumb, it is difficult to deny his ‘personhood.’”
If Ms. Poschel believes that’s a logical argument against abortion—it looks like a baby, therefore it is a baby—then presumably when the fetus is just a couple of cells that look nothing like a human being, we should make the logical conclusion it’s not a person.

Then we get “Much of what is happening today, with mothers killing their babies after birth, can be attributed to a lack of respect for all human life, which began with the legalization of abortion.”

Look at the bloody record of lynching during the first half of this century and say that with a straight face. Or look at the Nazis, who had no respect for human life and also restricted Weimar Republic legal abortions (because Aryan women had a duty to breed babies for the Reich).

“If you kill an unborn baby within the womb, then what’s wrong with killing a three year old child, a middle-age adult or an elderly citizen?”

Yet abortion opponents also claim that they don’t want to prosecute women who get abortions because they’re “victims.” By that logic, what’s wrong with giving women immunity if they kill a three year old child?

And if there’s no difference between born and unborn, why don’t we start counting age from the moment of conception instead of the moment of birth?

And if Poschel is worried about the slippery slope, that cuts both ways: If a fetus’s life has to be protected, what’s wrong with stopping women from any activity that could cause a miscarriage? Or forcing them not to work if it might have some risk? Or forbidding them to take medically necessary drugs that might be abortifacent?

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