“While in the womb, you are in a privileged safe place. In fact your Status is rising all the time. As far as the no-choice crowd is concerned, you outrank your host, the woman in whose womb you are the budding guest. Some no-choice pickets even have posters that put you on a cross, giving you a kind of divine dignity. You are so important that for some people there is no other issue on which they vote. They’re called the “single issue” people. They call themselves “pro-life” even though they have a passion for war and capital punishment. These “pro-lifers” particularly love to invade small countries with weak armies, places like Iraq or Grenada. I admit that is a bit weird, but they happen to be in charge right now, so we have to worry about them.
As long as you don’t get born, however, you don’t have a worry in the world…unless, of course, you are in one of the small countries the “pro- lifers” happen to be bombing.”
“Fetus Alert!” by Daniel C. Maguire in The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics
