They Said It

If you think that pro-life convictions are strictly religious (of a certain stripe), and/or strictly politically conservative, perhaps you should meet Sarah Terzo. A member of Secular Pro-Life and Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, Terzo maintains ClinicQuotes, a blog wherein -- among other things --  abortionists and supporters of abortion hang themselves routinely on the rope of their own words:

I’ve thought through this issue, to do it as long as I have, and I have to sleep well at night… Is it life? Clearly it’s life. Does it deserve protection? My answer is “no.” (more)

There's also debunking of the standard abortion apologetics:

People who have had an abortion are more likely to abuse their children and people who have been abused are more likely to have an abortion… Abortion results in more postpartum depression and therefore less bonding, less touching and less breast-feeding… It should be noted that one of the earliest arguments was that aborting unwanted children would diminish the incidence of child abuse. Statistics show precisely the opposite; that is, with more frequent abortions, all kinds of child abuse have increased. (more)

There's irony. There's ignorance.   And there's truth:  the truth that the legalized abortion industry not only destroys children but hurts women on a far vaster scale than anything we've seen in history prior to 1973. It is a human-rights issue, and it turns on the littlest of the little guys. If it matters to you that someone other than a religious wingnut like, say, me, points this out to you, well, here you go. 

Camille Paglia, too . . .