Dr. Stotland conveniently refuses to consider that perhaps some personal opinions and some religious convictions are actually rooted in non-relative, objective facts. And perhaps the aborting woman does not know them or want to know them at that moment. Yet later she does learn these correct embryological facts, even years after the abortion. Certainly the field of bioethics is finally beginning to come to grips with that dialogue. I myself am a professional woman, and I know perfectly well that women have been the subject of serious and unjustified abuse and discrimination.
Abortion is, in fact, ultimately an aggression against women.
Philosophical and Scientific Analysis of the Nature of the Early Human Embryo. Accountability in Research. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Also Bole J.T. Metaphysical accounts of the zygote as a person and the veto power of facts. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.