Letters to the Editor
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It's almost...like killing a human being
"...the removed material is recognizably and shockingly human. For much too long, the pro-choice movement has relied on comforting euphemisms suggesting that early abortions result in nothing more than unrecognizable globs of goo. That was always sophistry; when you see tiny severed legs, arms and other body parts in that tray, it seems like something worse than that."
There are more layers of sophistry than that -- like twisting the debate over abortion around to focus on the beliefs, backgrounds and personalities of those opposed to it. The central fact is that a human life - heart, brain, lungs, spinal column, arms, legs - is sliced and removed.
That's not to belittle the innumerable young women who find themselves up against a wall, alone, scared - and fed an ideological soft-soap about abortion. But what someone opposed to abortion thinks about capital punishment, or anything else, is entirely moot. It's about the life reduced to "body parts in that tray." Everything else is a lie, a dodge, a refusal to own up to the reality of the deed.