Meet the new normal for motherhood. It’s called abortion

Feb 5, 2016 by

By Caroline Farrow, TCW:

As the abortion debate rumbles on and indeed heats up in the Republic of Ireland where activists are campaigning to repeal the Eighth Amendment which protects the life of the unborn child, a disturbing and new sinister piece of pro-choice rhetoric has emerged.

Faced with the advent of ever-more sophisticated and detailed ultrasound images which annihilate the concept of the unborn child as being little more than a cluster of cells or blob of tissue, abortion clinics and their supporters have instead decided to repackage abortion as being simply another aspect of motherhood. So we see articles such as this one, from Cosmopolitan in 2014, which describes abortion as being a normal part of women’s lives, alongside sex, childbirth, infertility and miscarriage.

It’s also why, over the past few years, abortion providers have been keen to highlight that over 50 per cent of women both in the UK and the US having an abortion, are already mothers. It’s a deliberate piece of misdirection, with the aim of swaying public opinion in favour of abortion as being a compassionate and responsible choice.

Logically, if one is considering the issue of personhood or the rights of the unborn child, then it should not matter one jot whether or not a woman is already a mother. Either you believe that the unborn child is human life and thus deserving of protection from the moment of conception, or you believe that a woman has a right to get rid of the unwanted pregnancy for whatever reason whenever she chooses in pregnancy. Any other position does not make sense. If an unborn child is not really a baby, at what stage do they become one? Does some sort of magic happen in the birth canal, does the blue fairy wave her wand and say ‘you’re real’ right at the moment the baby emerges? Why is the unborn child arbitrarily accorded humanity simply because their odds of survival outside of the womb, have shortened?

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