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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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