Roe v. Wade | 2. Life or Death
Slow Burn
The Handbook on Abortion
In the book and in their lectures, the wilkies convey an air of absolute moral sureness. Ask yourselves, is this little being that grows within the mother human? I don't know of a mother who's ever given birth to a chicken. Women do it because they're selfish, because they feel that their career or their free time is more important than raising a child for all morality. In the hymn book on abortion, there's something conspicuously missing, explicit references to religion. The wilkies were motivated by the catholic belief that life begins at conception. Instead, they draw on their scientific authority. They cite doctors, medical groups and studies.
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