However, foremost among the moral tutors who prepared Drexler to act as she did is the Supreme Court. By pretending in Roe vs. Wade not to know when life begins, the Court encouraged looking away from the stark fact that abortion kills something. How much more convenient if we lived in the thirteenth century, when no one knew anything about microbiology and arguments about the onset of life were legitimate. Biology does not allow the abortion argument to be about, or anyone to be agnostic about, when life begins. Conscientious people can disagree about the appropriate moral and legal status to be accorded the life that abortion ends.
Pregnancy is a continuum.
What begins at conception will, if there is no natural misfortune or deliberate attack, become a child. If it becomes a child at a prom, it must be attacked quickly, lest the whole night be a bummer. No, an earthquake is a tragedy. Perhaps the brevity of the life of Drexler's son will accelerate the transformation of the nation's vague unrest into a vivid consciousness that today's abortion culture, with its casual creation and destruction of life, is evil. E.W. Scripps Publications , All Rights Reserved.