It is not a person
This is one of the most useful articles about abortion that I’ve seen in a long time.
Abortion is now banned or severely restricted in 14 states in the US, the outcome of a decades-long campaign by anti-abortion advocates. In many states, abortion is no longer seen as a health procedure, but a morality issue. Pennsylvania’s Doug Mastriano – once a state senator, now running for governor – is one of a number of Republican politicians who has called for murder charges for people who defy abortion bans.
In 13 of those 14 states, abortion is banned even in the earliest stages of pregnancy.
These images, supplied to us by the MYA Network, a network of clinicians and activists who came together earlier in the pandemic when some states tried to deem abortion as “non-essential” medical care, show what tissue in the first nine weeks of pregnancy actually looks like.
Sometimes, patients want to see the tissue after an abortion. “They are stunned by what it actually looks like,” says Fleischman. “That’s when I realized how much the imagery on the internet and on placards – showing human-like qualities at this early stage of development – has really permeated the culture. People almost don’t believe this is what comes out.”
Above is tissue removed at six weeks, when misleadingly named “fetal heartbeat” bills outlaw abortion.
The abortion zealots believe that collection of tissue has more rights than the fully formed human being it resides within. They are not only saying that women must turn their lives upside down, sacrifice their futures and, in some cases, endure lifelong trauma if that collection of tissue comes together inside them. Some must even suffer or die in order that the collection of tissue be allowed to progress into something it clearly is not: a person.
It’s a dystopian horror. Potential life is not a life.