High-school junior Rebecca Hopfer hid her swelling belly, gave birth in a toilet, cinched the newborn into a plastic bag and dropped her in the trash. I just couldn't do it. And in that madness, there was no escape but to do the wrong thing. It comes down to it or me. Abortion opponents would call this obscene selfishness.
Moral decisions weigh good against good, necessary evil against insupportable evil.
Thoughtful social policy does the same, and then creates conditions in which good is more likely to happen. Just think of Rebecca Hopfer's life, measured out in cell-bound days, and her newborn daughter's wretched death, suckled, as if it were life, from a collapsing plastic shroud. Write a letter to the Editor. Shop O2 . All Rights Reserved.