Perversion rules: The anti-person assault on female US persons

re: "We Just Saw the Future of Anti-Abortion Laws" (The New York Times, August 13, 2020)

The warped legal arguments against abortion are so contorted in their perverse twisting of fake claims of caring for mothers and others that they corrupt the US justice system at the behest of those whose motives are, at heart, dishonest.

The anti-abortionists resort to perversion in their arguments because they cannot come out and make an honest argument in favour of abortion for the very good reason that no such argument exists. Hence, they warp whatever they can to suit their agenda against the right of American women to freely decide the uses to which their own bodies, they themselves, are put.

The only sound case for opposing abortion would be that it involved killing a living human person, but abortion does not do that. It kills only a living human with or without a heartbeat, but at no point in any pregnancy is any foetus ever a person; no person could ever be killed by an abortion. The facts being plain to all, there can be no morally sound reason, hence no legally sound reason, to treat aborting a human foetus any differently to killing any other living thing with or without a heartbeat, such as pig, duck, or veal calf, all of which possess exactly the same morally relevant characteristics of personhood—none.

But the anti-person opponents of abortion cannot rebut these facts, so they pervert the US legal system to serve their dishonest agenda inspired by whatever fictions rule their fanciful imaginings, forcing the fruits of their delusion on all they can.

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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to The New York Times article.

It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/opinion/arkansas-abortion-laws.html#commentsContainer&permid=108618256:108618256