But it also demands a certain purity of vision. For the truth is that we take innocent lives all the time. When the Russians invaded Germany, or our pilots bombed Hanoi, thousands of innocent men, women and children were incinerated. Not Saddam Hussein. Necessities of war, or reasons of state, seem like poor excuses to their innocent victims.
Life is cheap, and disturbingly undervalued.
What makes RU-486 distasteful is not the fact that it aborts a fetus, but that it transforms a complex, arduous decision into a matter of convenience. It is admirable to protect lives that cannot defend themselves, and there is no doubt anti-abortionists have the better ethical argument. JWR contributor Philip Terzian is associate editor of The Providence Journal. Comment by clicking here. Today, Dr. Laura.