Fri Dec 9, 2022 – 2:46 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Two law professors have lamented the awkward dilemma pro-abortion activists face when they encounter women devastated by miscarriages. Ignoring the reality of fetal life, they say, is callous and counterproductive for pro-abortion advocates’ attempts to win over women grieving the loss of their unborn children.
But rather than resolving that dilemma by affirming an objective view of human life, the two professors – the University of Pittsburgh’s Greer Donley and University of Arkansas’ Jill W. Lens – double down on the contradictions inherent in the left’s worldview.
To win post-Roe political battles, the two suggest pro-abortion advocates advance a “subjective valuation” of preborn children whereby their worth is determined by the mother. “Not only is fetal value subjective, it is also relational,” the two write in November’s edition of the Vanderbilt Law Review. “Neither tort law nor pregnant people view the fetus as entirely separate; the value is in the baby’s relationship with the world, which depends on the pregnant person.”
Donley and Lens are right to criticize the political effectiveness of the left’s current rhetoric. But their solution – which entails at least affirming fetal
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