

Dealing with Human Sacrifice
example of how men and women can work
together with true equality.
The pro-life movement must take back the
question of women. We must build a coalition of
women -- from all races, all creeds and all walks
of life -- united in one thing: that the pro-abortion,
anti-family, radical feminists don't speak for us.
We must put forward articulate spokeswomen and
demand to be heard. We must show the world
that pro-life is pro-woman.
Frederica Matthewes-Green is editor of
Sister Life.
Here are her words as printed in an article titled
"Designated Unperson," courtesy of
All About Issues:
The pre-born is not a part of his mother's body
anymore than an astronaut is part of his
spaceship. The fact is that neither is viable
without necessary access to oxygen, food, and
shelter does not prove that they are not persons.
Both the fetus and the astronaut are tenants,
though in the case of the pre-born it cannot be
denied that he can be an uncomfortable and
demanding one. Does this give the mother the
right to evict her unwanted tenant? The situation
may be like that of the sea captain who discovers
a stowaway and considers whether to throw him
over board.
The .missing factor in the analogy is that the pre-born
did not take up residence in his mother's body under
his own free will, but was called into being (in virtually
all cases) by a consciously-chosen act that the
participants were aware could have resulted in
pregnancy. For both parents, undertaking to have
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