Readers probably know by now that, as the Babylon Bee puts it, the U.S. Supreme Court’s war on all preborn humans was itself aborted on Friday in its 198th trimester. Pragmatic details here.
Various Hard Left types are eviscerating each other as to who’s to blame but one op-ed stood out for its refreshing clarity:
There is something infantilizing about denying the fact that embryos die when we scrape them out of the bodies of which they are a part. It sentimentalizes pregnant or potentially pregnant humans as fundamentally nonviolent creatures to imply that we can’t handle the truth about what we are up to when we opt out. And it patronizes abortion-getters to insist that we are only making a health care choice, rather than (also) extinguishing a future child. In my view, recognizing that gestating manufactures a proto-person requires acknowledging that abortion kills a proto-person. A baby is completely dependent on human care in order to stay alive, but its needs could be filled by any person—whereas a fetus, a proto-person, is ineluctably dependent on specific person…
As long as people are performing pregnancy on this earth, they must be free to change their minds about seeing it through. The adoption industry could be revolutionized and child welfare lavishly subsidized; regardless of the available supports, no one should be pregnant involuntarily. The science of medicine dictates that when foreign organisms inhabit the human body unwelcomely, we tend to eject them…
What would it mean to acknowledge that a death is involved in an abortion? Above all, it would allow for a fairer fight against the proponents of forced gestating. When “pro-life” forces agitate against feticide on the basis that it is killing, pro-abortion feminists should be able to acknowledge, without shame, that yes, of course it is. When we withdraw from gestating, we stop the life of the product of our gestational labor. And it’s a good thing we do, too, for otherwise the world would sag under the weight of forced life. It is a hard pill to swallow for a misogynist society, sentimentally attached to its ideology of patriarchal motherhood, but the truth is that gestators should get to decide which bodies to give form to. This choosing is our prerogative. A desire not to be pregnant is sufficient reason in and of itself to terminate a gestatee.
Sophie Lewis, “Abortion Involves Killing–and That’s OK!” at The Nation (June 22, 2022)
And mark the closing lines:
… Our is the mature pro-life politics. I don’t want to live in a world that valorizes life for its own sake. I want to live in a world that prioritizes the life chosen and wanted. Peoples’ lives are worth more than fetuses’ lives
Sophie Lewis, “Abortion Involves Killing–and That’s OK!” at The Nation (June 22, 2022)
This last comment chimes well with historian Yuval Noah Harari, an elite globalist darling, obsessing about what to do with all the “useless,” “meaningless,” and “worthless” people in the world.
Meanwhile, here’s a fearless independent Canadian news hack covering the pro-abortion demos in New York:
People like him are widely hated by the official Canadian media who take taxpayers’ money from the government to stay in business.
Hat tip: Matt Vespa for Sophie Lewis comments.
You may also wish to read: A Great Reset historian muses on what to do with “useless” people. Transhumanist Yuval Noah Harari, a key advisor to the World Economic Forum, thinks free will is “dangerous” and a “myth.” It’s not clear that, given his intense, dramatic focus on “useless,” “meaningless,” and “worthless” people, Harari is far off from totalitarianism.