In a brief submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union, where the ACLU argued in favor of doctors who wanted to remove the organs of an infant with anencephaly while the child was still alive:
“there is absolutely no morally significant change in the fetus between the moments immediately preceding and following birth.”
Quoted in Paul Greenberg, “the Power of a Cartoon,” National Right to Life News, December 13, 1994: 18
This is, of course, would pro-lifers have been arguing all along.
