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In case anybody else is actually that mixed up, there is no such thing as an “aborted child.” A child is someone who is born, not a cell or unit of cells or even a fetus. A fetus is never a child. Abortions are performed usually on EMBRYOS, which do not have little arms nor do they have little legs nor do they emit tiny screams when they are removed from the woman in whose uterus they might happen to be. But this very woman is often a child herself, and often emits horrific screams, when her abortion is self-induced or performed illegally. There is also no such thing as embryo abuse. A woman can, and so very often is, abused; so is a live and real child. This is a social act, an act of control and misogyny. An embryo feels no pain. Honest.
We, too, feel it would be great for this society of ours to get to the point where abortion operations are unthinkable. And that someday could be today! It wouldn’t take much, just the legal and widespread distribution of RU 486, perhaps even some decent birth control, too.
