Yet it is the woman who must experience the invasive abortion procedure itself, the health after- effects, and in many cases a lingering sense of guilt and unease. They claimed that sexual liberation for women would level the playing field and bring a kind of justice. What they did not bank on was that the availability of abortion would prove another form of victimization and injustice for women. Now men can be as sexually irresponsible as they want, while it is the women they impregnate who must experience the destruction of the babies these men conceive. Abortion on demand is the best thing that ever happened to the irresponsible and sexually promiscuous male.
Some moral struggles are long and slow.
On this continent, slavery lasted from 1619 to 1863. Abortion on demand, by comparison, has been available for just 26 years. As Martin Luther King liked to say, there is a moral structure to the universe, and its violation cannot continue indefinitely.