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David's avatar

This is what we are up against.

Abortion is justified as evicting a trespasser from private property – but not as killing

A woman has full rights to her womb and should not be held responsible for the wellbeing of an aborted foetus outside of it.

https://www.rt.com/news/558223-abortion-choice-life-position-evicting/

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David Richardson's avatar

Well, even in cases of evicting a trespasser from private property, the accused has certain legal rights before a court. The accused may challenge the eviction notice. Abortion offers the fetus no such rights. Even on its face, the analogy to private property breaks down. The sexual act that produced the pregnancy did not and could not include the unborn child as a party to some contract the terms of which the fetus has somehow violated. In fact, a consensual sexual act is a unilateral invitation for pregnancy. The fetus had no say. Only the consenting sexual partners are responsible. It is a great pity that such irrational appeals are used to justify killing of the unborn in order to call that killing something more acceptable, such as "eviction." Chesterton accused advocates of eugenics of being similarly disposed toward euphemism (see Eugenics and Other Evils), Perhaps pro-abortionists are cut from the same cloth. Here is the website: https://shoutyourabortion.com/.

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