Joseph Fletcher, an Episcopalian professor of social ethics, said that abortion was justified. He used as his moral argument the example of a woman raped by an insane person:
“Even self-defense legalism would have allowed the girl to kill her attacker, no matter that he was innocent in the forum of conscience because of his madness. The embryo is no more innocent, no less an aggressor or unwelcome invader! Is not the most loving thing possible (the right thing) in this case the responsible decision to terminate the pregnancy?”
Kerry N Jacoby Souls, Bodies, Spirits: the Drive to Abolish Abortion since 1973 (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998) 3
This is what a ten week old baby looks like after she is aborted. Is this justifiable?
