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By: Sarah Terzo, originally published March 16, 2025, SarahTerzo.substack.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is sometimes assumed in the abortion debate that the fundamental difference between the pro-life and pro-choice positions is conflicting views on when human life begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pro-lifers believe that life begins at conception. The fetus in the womb is a human being. Pro-lifers use science and reason to back up this premise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pro-choicers, on the other hand, are thought to believe that a baby in the womb is not a human life. They think life does not begin at conception. Or they may believe that a fetus, while physically alive, is not a baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many pro-lifers think that if we can just convince pro-choicers that a preborn fetus is a human being, they will change their minds and embrace the pro-life cause. Sadly, for many, this is not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there are plenty of ordinary, pro-choice people who would find the personhood of a preborn baby compelling, that is not the case with many pro-choice activists.<\/p>\n\n\n

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More and more of them are admitting that a preborn baby is<\/em> a living human being. Their pro-choice stand is based not on the belief that the baby is not a human being, but rather on the belief that killing the baby is justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This opinion was expressed in Naomi Wolf\u2019s essay \u201cOur Bodies, Our Souls: Rethinking ProChoice Rhetoric.\u201d Her essay, which appeared in the October 16, 1995, issue of The New Republic<\/em>, contains this passage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was when I was four months pregnant, sick as a dog, and in the middle of an argument, that I realized I could no longer tolerate the fetus-is-nothing paradigm of the pro-choice movement. I was being interrogated by a conservative, and the subject of abortion rights came up. \u201cYou\u2019re four months pregnant,\u201d he said. \u201cAre you going to tell me that\u2019s not a baby you\u2019re carrying?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accepted pro-choice response at such a moment in the conversation is to evade: to move as swiftly as possible to a discussion of \u201cprivacy\u201d and \u201cdifficult personal decisions\u201d and \u201cchoice.\u201d Had I not been so nauseated and so cranky and so weighed down with the physical gravity of what was going on inside me, I might not have told what is the truth for me. \u201cOf course, it\u2019s a baby,\u201d I snapped. And went rashly on: \u201cAnd if I found myself in circumstances in which I had to make the terrible decision to end this life, then that would be between myself and God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Many pro-life readers found this revelation shocking, and some pro-choice activists criticized Wolf. Having a fellow activist suddenly proclaim that yes, a fetus has been a baby all along, was jarring to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They saw her rhetoric as a threat to abortion rights. But despite the outcry from some pro-choicers, others have echoed her sentiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One example is abortion supporter Judith Arcana. Arcana was part of the group JANE. JANE was a group of feminists that was established before abortion was legalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JANE started as a referral service that connected pregnant women with illegal abortionists. Later, the members of JANE, who had no medical degrees, performed abortions themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They did illegal abortions in all three trimesters of pregnancy. Arcana, therefore, is both a pro-abortion activist and a former illegal abortionist. She says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I performed abortions, I have had an abortion and I am in favor of women having abortions when we choose to do so. But we should never disregard the fact that being pregnant means there is a baby growing inside of a woman, a baby whose life is ended. We ought not to pretend this is not happening.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Arcana readily admits that abortion kills a baby. She feels that abortions are justified, even though they kill babies. She has no problem with believing a woman has the right to murder her baby for personal reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview, Arcana was asked whether pro-choice activists should show pictures of starving children to illustrate the need for abortion and argue for legal abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She felt they shouldn\u2019t, because \u201cSurely the outcome of that approach is to make the case less woman-centered. Surely the child is really irrelevant to the issue<\/em> (emphasis added).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is clear Arcana sees a preborn baby as a child, just like pro-lifers do. She just supports killing that child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Black echoed these sentiments in an interview in which she discussed My Fetus<\/em>, a pro-abortion documentary that she directed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with ABC\u2019s Tony Jones, she said, bluntly, \u201c[The idea of] dismembering a baby and pulling it out in pieces \u2026 is obviously horrific. But at the same time, it is easy to get caught up in that emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Black implies that while abortion does indeed kill a baby by dismemberment, this act is nothing to be concerned about. There is no need to get \u201ccaught up\u201d in an emotional reaction to the baby\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The baby\u2019s dismemberment is of no consequence. What is important is the mother\u2019s desire not to be pregnant. Those of us who are troubled by the thought of a baby being violently torn apart are overreacting and overemotional. We should just get over it and accept abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black also acknowledged that babies are killed by abortion when she said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having looked at the facts, uncomfortable as they are, you have to make up your own mind as to which life takes priority. That decision is a moral one, that only you can make.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Choosing abortion means sacrificing a life, acknowledges Black. But it should still be a woman\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this callous attitude limited to only a few pro-choice advocates on the fringe? To answer that question, one needs to look no further than to Faye Wattleton, the former president of Planned Parenthood\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 850 books<\/a> on the <\/a>topic. She supports the Consistent Life Ethic, a philosophy that values all human life from conception to natural death.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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