As a House member, Republican Jim Courter was resolutely pro-life. As a candidate for New Jersey governor in 1989, he had a change of fetal heartbeat geared to electoral advantage. Politicians who morph on abortion are never asked why. By 1988, you were convinced that the unborn child is a nonentity. Dr. Watson Bowes, professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina, notes that 20 years ago ultrasound was primitive.
Further confirmation comes from fetal surgery.
Today, surgeons can operate on an unborn child in the 22nd week to forestall spina bifida and a host of other conditions. Of course, Gore and other panderers might argue that the status of the fetus is irrelevant. Perhaps we're so accustomed to politicians shamelessly dissimulating and switching sides with no more than a pro-forma explanation that it ceases to matter. Would you like to see them add this columnist to their newspaper. Use this form to find your local paper's email address and recommend this columnist.