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We have long said the abortion movement is not about freedom; it’s about control. A newly published essay in a prestigious academic journal has now made that case more explicitly than we ever could.
In the April edition of Ethics, a philosophy journal published by the University of Chicago, two academics — a PhD candidate and her professor at the University of British Columbia — have written a thirty-one page argument for forced abortion on underage girls. You heard that right. Not suggested. Not encouraged. Forced. They acknowledge that enforcing this might require, in their own words, sedation or physical restraint, which could be traumatizing, but is justified as a last resort to provide what they call “adequate care.” So much for “my body, my choice.”
Their argument rests on three assumptions, none of which are examined honestly. First, that abortion is an uncontested good. Second, that pregnancy in a minor is always harmful and always the result of rape. (They never once acknowledge the reality of consensual relationships between teenagers close in age — because that would undermine their victim narrative.) Third, that young women lack the maturity to make the right decision, so the decision must be made for them.
They even anticipate the objection that a young woman might feel love for her unborn child and want to be a mother. Their response? That maternal instinct is a problem to be overcome.
There is a contradiction, however, that these scholars cannot escape. The same academic world that insists children have the autonomy to consent to irreversible gender surgeries and cross-sex hormones now tells us that a young woman cannot be trusted to decide whether to continue her own pregnancy. The inconsistency is not accidental. The agenda is consistent — undermine parental authority, override natural instinct, and place the power of life and death in the hands of the state and the medical elites.
Forced abortion is no longer a fringe idea buried in a radical pamphlet. This was published in one of the most respected philosophy journals in the country. This is exactly where the culture of death leads. It does not stop at convenience or choice. It moves, step by step, toward compulsion.
We must keep speaking the truth. Every life is worth defending. Will you stay engaged with us in this cultural fight? Get in touch with us at PhyllisSchlafly.com, again that’s PhyllisSchlafly.com. Join us next time for the Phyllis Schlafly Report.
