Abortion Is Not Genocide Despite CBR's tactics, we still have CBR's basic claim to consider. Most people find this question absurdly offensive on its face. Yet when I surfed the Internet to find pro-choice responses, I found almost nothing. In any case, given CBR's activism, I'm convinced that a rebuttal is long overdue. To start, it must be said that to compare abortion to the real genocide of real people is highly insulting to the relatives and descendants of slaves and Holocaust victims.
Genocide is a violent and intolerable act of hatred against a particular community of people.
It is an inexcusable crime. Abortion, by contrast, is an essential, legal medical procedure that women desperately need, not only to give them control over their bodies and lives but to preserve and improve the lives of their families. Women have abortions not out of hatred or selfish convenience or because they're coerced into it, but generally because they want to be good mothers to their existing or future children. But the definition of genocide can only apply to actual people living as part of a human society. Clearly, the supposed personhood of a fetus is a matter of subjective opinion which can't be conclusively agreed upon by law, science, or society in general.