When pro-life is anti-person

re: "Er, Can I Ask a Few Questions About Abortion?" (The New York Times, October 28, 2020)

"Pro-life" is really "anti-person." The faith-based pro-life zealots, in the tradition of faith-based opinion, reject reason, facts and moral awareness of an issue, believing on faith that shouting loudly and using secular law to force their faith-based rejection of reason, facts and moral awareness on others can make their opinions true. Such sincerely fanatical devotion to faith did not make the Earth the centre of the universe, no matter how many scientists were killed or executed in the name of the faith. Such sincere zealotry in the name of the faith did not make Darwin wrong or the Earth a 6,000 year old creation over six days.

A foetus is a living being. After only a couple of months development, the foetus has a heart beat. It shares those characteristics with every animal we humans cheerfully kill to eat. Pigs are living beings with heartbeats before we turn them into bacon. Chickens are living beings with heartbeats before we roast them.

What makes humans, and a few other animals, deserving of special moral consideration is that we are persons. But no foetus at any stage in development has any characteristic of a person. None.

In their fanatical lust to protect non-persons, the religious dictators violate the basic liberties of actual persons, which all pregnant women are. Like your unfriendly fanatical neighbourhood imam or Middle Eastern despot calling the faithful not to suffer a blaspheming infidel to live, the pro-lifers' attacks prove them anti-person.

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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/2020/10/28/opinion/abortion-america-politics.html#commentsContainer&permid=109858011:109858011