Unlike in recent years, when the thrust of legislative activity was on regulating abortion, this year legislators seem to be focusing on banning abortion outright.
If the fertilized egg as person movement wasn’t already showing signs of jumping the shark, now they are bribing people into supporting them.
The development of a potential human life requires conception as a first step. But that is not the same as either pregnancy or personhood. You can’t reduce complex reality to a slogan, and when you try to do so, you actually minimize the personhood of women.
The prochoice movement is focusing on the fact that Arizona’s new abortion bill measures pregnancy from a woman’s last menstrual period. However, this is not inaccurate; instead we should be focusing on the aspects that will directly impact abortion access.
For well over a week, both sides have been parsing Ryan’s abortion stance. Why is a man so openly anti-choice so unwilling to admit his actual positions?
Tissue can be frozen and thawed and live, human life cannot! The zygote is tissue, it is not life.
