Tactically, there is concern that an explicit goal of working to prevent the need for abortions or to reduce the incidence of abortion undermines efforts to demonstrate that those opposed to abortion are extremists.
It's a problem because of the picture to be framed.
Simply put, the movement as a whole and most of our leaders find it difficult to acknowledge publicly that we have spent our lives, our passion, fighting for something that both is central to human freedom and autonomy and ends a form of human life.
They ask themselves,
Can we totally separate our attitude toward the justifiable taking of non-personal life in abortion from the other principles of protecting life that have become crucial to our survival as civilized human beings?
Since non-persons and double-think have those Orwellian connotations, I expect abortion advocates will stick with characterizing opposing views as, say,
the idiosyncratic thoughts of Catholics who have some creepy obsession with fetuses.
(via Diogenes at Off the Record)
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