{"id":281018,"date":"2022-12-07T08:51:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=281018"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:58:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:58:59","slug":"professors-sympathize-miscarrying-defending-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/professors-sympathize-miscarrying-defending-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion professors: We must sympathize with miscarrying mothers while defending abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two pro-abortion professors are openly urging other abortion supporters to more explicitly value life on a subjective basis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Published last month, their law review <\/span>article<\/span><\/a> laments the current state of abortion politics, which often leads to pro-abortion advocates ignoring or minimizing discussions about preborn children lost to miscarriage. This stance, note authors Greer Donley and Jill W. Lens, is callous in response to women who experience pregnancy loss but could be allies in their fight against abortion restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their article touches on a common contradiction within the pro-abortion movement \u2014 namely, that proponents of abortion will acknowledge human life under some circumstances but not others. Rather than seeking an objective acknowledgement for the value of human life, Donley and Lens acknowledge humanity in the womb but suggest personhood is merely a social construct that factors in things like a mother\u2019s view of her own pregnancy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cNot only is fetal value subjective, it is also relational,\u201d the two law professors write. Their article promotes \u201cnot-one-but-not-two\u201d framing in which the \u201cfetus is not a legal person, but is human and the woman-fetus relationship is a \u2018developing self-other relationship.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Notably, this same view is held by late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, who has maimed and even killed women who sought abortions from him. In a previous Huffington Post interview<\/a>, Carhart justifies his career by stating, “In my heart and my mind, you know, life begins when the mother thinks it begins, not when anybody else thinks it begins. For some women, it\u2019s when they conceive, and for some women, it\u2019s never, even after they deliver, it\u2019s still a problem, not a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lens is a professor at the University of Arkansas. Donley, meanwhile, works for the University of Pittsburgh, which has come under intense scrutiny for seemingly admitting it collects organs that have been extracted from live fetuses. The university has denied this charge but the controversy raised questions about the inherent value of human life and whether another value could feasibly be assigned in fetal tissue transfers. Federal law currently prohibits tissue trafficking through assigning valuable consideration to organs and other body parts.<\/span><\/p>\n