“So, what if abortion IS killing a human being? Evidently it’s one of those millions of human beings who are simply destined to never see the outside of their wombs. And what’s so wrong with that? We have too any people on the planet as it is. Why all the mourning for what amounted to a clump of cells, whether or not it DID have a soul?…So what are we mourning, anyway? If the fetus I chose, at age 19, to abort at 6-12 weeks (I honestly can’t remember how far along I was. I just remember the indescribable RELIEF when I wasn’t, anymore) WAS an actual human being, with a soul, then I imagine that human being with a soul had somewhere ELSE to go…”
Maryscott O’Conner “Abortion, Murder and Moral Relativism” Mon Jan. 23, 2006
