Morality Trap Morality Trap by Catherine Rottenberg Catherine at local Greens Congress. Abortion is once again being utilized as political leverage to help rake in the votes. The pro-lifers portray abortion as the social issue on which society's moral probity hinges. According to these people, the fetus, especially when it becomes viable, is a child that deserves to live.
Life is sacred, and the act of abortion is tantamount to murder.
I have rarely heard these same politicians, activists, and religious leaders speak out about the moral imperative of a living wage, subsidized child care, or equal access to health care and decent education. In her book Backlash, Susan Faludi describes the findings of a 1989 California research team which studied more than 146,000 births between 1982 and 1986. Since 1989 the number of uninsured Americans has steadily increased, and today it has reached 41 million people, with another 29 million more underinsured. If the GOP truly cared about babies and the sanctity of life, they would have secured passage of the proposed National Health Care Plan way back in 1993. The fact that we are still covering the same ground in our abortion debate should lead us to wonder whether there really isn't something else going on.