1/05/2005 05:15:03 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

A horrific story on Drudge just piqued by interest. Apparently, two minors induced an abortion of a 6 month old fetus by hitting the girls stomach with a baseball bat over a series of weeks. It eventually worked, and the boy is facing charges. The mother is exempt from charges by law.

I thought that if abortion was made illegal such horrible things as this were going to happen. But as it stands, abortion is very much legal. And still, there was this desire to end the pregnancy like this instead of through legitimate medical channels. And to do so in the sixth month. So it wasn't the unavailability initially that kept these two kids from doing something so drastic - it was something else. Societal mores seem to have played a part in it. Getting an abortion went against some sort of moral belief collectively held in the community where these two lived, so that the shame of being found out (apparently no one knew the girl was pregnant) was of far more import to the two of them. The answer to this dilemma, I'm guessing, by abortion supporters, is to make premarital pregnancy and abortion more acceptable, not just legal, but acceptable overall to society, to the point that the only logical consequence of this shift in societal mores would be more abortions and more pregnancies. So far, no one has gone out on the limb and made this argument. They'd be smart not to touch it with a ten foot pole.

What I find odd, though, is that one can be criminally prosecuted in Michigan for killing a child through creative means, with maternal consent, but not for doing so through high velocity suction. What the DA is doing here is an end-run around Roe v. Wade, and prosecuting an individual for performing an abortion. Unfortunately for the pro-choicers (I hate that terminology - what's the opposite of "life", really?) out there, this is such a mentally visible ghastly act that they can't object.

So much for the argument that illegalizing abortion would create situations like this one - it seems they already exist.

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