{"id":534815,"date":"2021-05-21T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=534815"},"modified":"2021-05-21T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:36:26","slug":"knowles-the-strongest-argument-for-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-the-strongest-argument-for-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOWLES:\u00a0The Strongest Argument for Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fknowles-the-strongest-argument-for-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=534815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1168414.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As a new abortion law is headed to the Supreme Court for judicial review, the hopeless optimists of the pro-life movement are once again holding their breath for an overturn of <em>Roe<\/em>, and prominent leftists have descended into hysterics at the remote prospect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think younger voters remember what it was like before&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>,\u201d fumed former Missouri senator Claire McCaskill. \u201cI don\u2019t think they realize these folks will not be happy until a rape victim is put in prison for taking the \u2018morning after\u2019 pill.\u201d McCaskill neglected to cite an example of proposals to jail rape victims for ingesting abortifacients because none exists. She refused even to describe \u201cwhat it was like before Roe v. Wade\u201d because a review of the facts would undercut her fearmongering.<\/p>\n<p>In 1972, the year before the Supreme Court invented a constitutional right to abortion in&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, 39 women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/00041486.htm\">died<\/a> from illegal abortions, and 24 women died from legal abortions. When one considers how many fewer states at that time permitted abortion than outlawed it, one discovers that the rate of death from illegal and legal abortions was almost exactly the same. Despite abortion industry propaganda claiming that thousands of women died each year from \u201cback-alley\u201d abortions \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/rapid-response\/2011\/11\/03\/how-abortion-movement-started-deceit-and-lies-dr-nathanson\">statistic<\/a> that National Abortion Rights Action League co-founder Bernard Nathanson later admitted to having invented out of whole cloth \u2014 life was not any more dangerous for women before Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s&nbsp;<span>Fredo<\/span>&nbsp;Chris Cuomo took an even more frivolous tack to attack the law. He accused Republicans of \u201clegislating to the far-right, white-fright vote.\u201d But abortion kills relatively far more black babies each year than white babies. Only the most self-sabotaging white supremacist would attempt to curtail a practice that so effectively culls the black race.<\/p>\n<p>After launching his limp racial attack, Cuomo next appealed to science. \u201cYou would think we would have impaneled experts by now to see what the science says, right?\u201d he asked. \u201cBut we don\u2019t seem to have the intellectual curiosity about this issue. Because it\u2019s not really about science. It has become a culture war\u2026to allow people to get up in their religion and their righteousness over any sense of what science suggests.\u201d Ironically, Cuomo is right. The abortion debate is not in fact about \u201cscience,\u201d which makes clear that babies are babies, and Cuomo does not appear to have much \u201cintellectual curiosity about this issue.\u201d If he did, he would acknowledge that the people through their elected representatives, rather than an ordained caste of \u201cscientists,\u201d decide political matters in a constitutional republic. The abortion debate revolves around a moral and political question: should mothers have the right to kill their children in the womb?<\/p>\n<p>The feminist author Naomi Wolf acknowledged the hard heart of the debate in a 1995 article for&nbsp;<em>The New Republic<\/em>. She decried the \u201clexicon of dehumanization\u201d that abortion advocates had developed to justify infanticide, and she confronted both the scientific and moral issues. \u201cAbortion should be legal,\u201d Wolf argued. \u201cIt is sometimes even necessary. Sometimes the mother must be able to decide that the fetus, in its full humanity, must die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, men and women are different, men cannot become pregnant, and therefore, radical \u201cgender equality\u201d entails the right of women to kill their children. It is a ghastly argument, but at least it\u2019s honest. Wolf understood that \u201cthe science\u201d was not on the abortionists\u2019 side, but more importantly, even if it were, a method of material inquiry would not suffice to resolve a moral and political question.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion advocates rely on pseudo-science, fabricated history, and imaginary rights to advance their cause. But they could avoid all the lies by making the honest moral case. They do not, presumably because of the revulsion it would induce. That should tell us something too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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