Abortion advocate admits life begins at conception
In a recent article in Salon.com to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the US Roe v Wade abortion decision, Mary Elizabeth Williams conceded that life begins at the moment of conception. However, she maintains that the choice of the woman takes precedence over the life of the baby. She concludes her essay, “And I would put the life of a mother over the life of a fetus every single time — even if I still need to acknowledge my conviction that the fetus is indeed a life. A life worth sacrificing.”
We need to know how these people who support abortion actually think – and what is behind their arguments.
* Read Mary Elizabeth Williams article at Salon.com (also attached)
So what if abortion ends life?
Albert Mohler responded to the article, in a piece titled, “So What if Abortion Ends a Life? Rare Candor from the Culture of Death”
He wrote, “The question is horrifying, but the argument was all too real. In a recent article, Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com conceded what the pro-life movement has contended all along — that from the moment of conception the unborn child is undeniably a human life. And yet, Williams argues that this unborn human life must be terminated if a woman desires an abortion. The child is a life, but, in her grotesque view, “a life worth sacrificing.” . . .
* Read Albert Mohler’s article: So What if Abortion Ends a Life? Rare Candor from the Culture of Death
Naomi Wolf made a similar admission in 1995
This isn’t the first time that supporters of abortion have conceded this – in 1995, feminist Naomi Wolf admitted that life starts at conception, and urged fellow abortion advocates to “contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death.” However, she still claimed it was still a woman’s right to have an abortion.
Read Naomi Wolf’s 1995 essay, Our bodies, our souls.
Originally published on October 16, 1995 in The New Republic.
Found here.
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