I completely missed this. Starting this week, a group called Abortion Changes You begins an advertising campaign in New York City billed as non-religious and non-political that deals with the grief some women feel after killing their unborn babies.
Abortion Changes You founder Michaelene Fredenburg said it “makes her sad” that pro-abortion groups have called her group “anti-abortion.” (Source)
Ms. Fredenburg must know if you display any concern for the unborn child and/or the consequences the mother faces after killing that child, pro-aborts will call you anti-abortion, an accusation I embrace wholeheartedly. There is no gray area or subtlety.
I think Ms. Fredenburg misses the point when she says the “pain or lack of pain” women experience after killing an unborn baby “shouldn’t be politicized.” Abortion is a moral and political issue. Acts that are legislated are political (but not all “political” things are legislated), and some acts fall into the morality category. For example, stealing is illegal and immoral. It is immoral to lie, but not illegal in all circumstances. Lying to your mother about not eating the last cookie in the jar is immoral, not illegal. The law regulates lying as it rises to the level of giving false statements to officials, misrepresentation, or fraud.
Killing an unborn baby is legal, so says the Supreme Court, but it is an immoral act. What makes it legal in the eyes of the law is that the person is in utero and the mother doesn’t want him.
While the pain a woman experiences isn’t political per se, the act she commits is political. And immoral.
But I’m nitpicking. The important thing is, subway riders will see the Abortion Changes You ads and discuss them, and maybe the ads will influence a few pregnant women to change their minds about killing their babies.
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