“[A] metaphor that counters the devaluation of women by antiabortion forces can be found in Alien, that ultimate sci-fi horror story of the reproductive cycle. In the film, the offspring of an unwanted pregnancy is portrayed as an intruder into the last frontier of inner space, resembling a penis with teeth bursting out of the chest cavity in a kind of equal opportunity cesarean. Has there ever been a more graphic statement of the unspoken facts of fertility?… Whatever moral status may be ascribed to an unborn child – alien invader, innocent human being, or a person with a right to life – no one has the right to use another’s body as a life-support system without her consent. It is time to recognize the murder case against abortion for what it is: a stupendous vaudeville of moral folly.”
Paul Savoy, Tikkun, September/October 1993 Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 46
