Abortion / A Moral Issue No Matter How One Looks At It

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...at all, in conditions of distress and necessity. Masochism becomes a substitute for morality. Women can have abortions, as long as we feel bad about them afterward. But is it really more civilized to say that yes, the fetus is a human life, but we can kill it anyway? The deceit, the fibs and the convoluted rhetorical subterfuges of the abortion rights movement are a sign of moral hope, not callousness a they reflect abortion supporters' belief that Americans would not continue to support abortion if they recognized the humanity of the unborn. It is generally assumed that we are not a people who believe it is acceptable to relieve adult suffering or solve social problems by killing babies. Like early Marxists, who in reaction to bourgeois morality insisted that "the sexual act is of no more consequence than the quenching of thirst by a glass of water," early abortion rights-advocates tried to make abortion the moral equivalent of motherhood (Cunningham 42). From what I have read, even many pro- choice defenders today concede that they're...

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