The anti-abortionists' strategy involves focusing solely on the fetus and describing the abortion in gruesome detail. Their professed compassion for the fetus apparently leaves no room for considering the woman's health and happiness. For them, waving a picture of a bloody, mangled fetus constitutes an argument. According to anti-abortionists' dogma, God places the soul in the womb at conception. The rights of the woman have therefore been sacrificed to the alleged rights of the fetus.
Abortion is a woman's moral right.
Glenn Woiceshyn is a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute in Marina del Rey, California.