And just like a drowning, some of these mothers will die trying to save their children. The alternative action is to deliberately destroy the child s life to save the mother s. But while the parent chose to jump into the water, the child has no options. This automatically means that the child s life is less valuable than the parent s. And once the child s life is considered less valuable than the mother s, the floodgates of abortion on demand have been opened.
All lives are no longer equal before the law.
That argument defines the baby as an attacker. It isn t. The baby is as much a victim of the circumstances of the pregnancy as the mother. And it has an equal right to survival. Let s return to the car accident analogy, with one rescuer and two victims.