Their bottom line is to get a
federal law passed criminalizing abortion (and maybe even the use of birth
control) in every state.
I also know that if they’re
ever going to pull off anything like that, they’ll have to disguise that law as
something else. Because it’s getting to be where more and more people don’t
like that idea.
But I also know that a lot
of those staunch pro-lifer types fancy themselves as the best friends of cripples
because a lot of fetuses get aborted when it is discovered in prenatal testing
that they will be crippled, like with Down Syndrome. And so they think that
they’re standing up for cripples because they’re standing up for crippled
fetuses.
The problem is that those staunch pro-lifer types are usually among the first to stop giving a shit about what happens to
these crippled fetuses once they are born. They attack the public programs that
crippled fetus may well need to survive as a crippled human, especially if it
is a poor crippled human, like Social Security and Medicaid.
So maybe those staunch
pro-lifer types could disguise their meddlesome legislation as a civil rights
law and thus pass themselves off as freedom fighters. They could call it the
Fetuses with Disabilities Act.
All the law would have to
say is, “Fetuses with disabilities have the right to be born.” And then there
would be a paragraph or two about how therefore nobody anywhere can ever have
an abortion or use birth control because it might deprive a crippled fetus of
its right to be born.
That’s all the Fetuses with
Disabilities Act would have to say. Because that’s all that matters to those
staunch pro-lifer types.
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