Some
claim that the fetus is not "human" during the first trimester. If not a
human "fetus", what is it? If it is a "fish", does it suddenly
transform into a human at the onset of the second trimester?
How awkward it is for those who want to keep abortion "safe
and legal" to confront the problem of when human life begins. For
if the fetus is human life not a diseased appendix nor a tumor then
abortion kills that human life and we concede the Hitlerian notion
that some lives are not worthy to be lived. How much better for them
to obscure and obfuscate to pretend that the very question is beyond
(or beneath?) answer. The humanity of the unborn is the great 13th
floor of modern society. Everyone knows it's there, but, for
convenience' sake, we pretend it isn't.
Congressman Henry J. Hyde, in a May 27, 1981 letter to the
Washington
Post. Printed in Appendix A to the Summer 1981
Human Life Review,
pages 80 to 83.
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