Wrong place, wrong time?

A point few on the left will admit except when recommending legalization of infanticide is that late term fetuses are just babies in a dangerous place.

Early term fetuses, in contrast, are mere masses of human cells not shaped up into a remotely recognizable individual human being.

As Judith Jarvis Thompson so famously wrote decades ago, "an acorn is not an oak tree."

But a sapling actually is, small and immature and weak though it be.

Allowing murder of any class of humans for selfish reasons or, worse yet, at will, is a little too scary for me, and so I would prefer that late term abortions not be allowed at all except in those cases where the usual arguments for euthanasia fairly apply.

Much less that they become profitable, less costly, or more entrenched thanks to uses of killed babies that would make even Jonathan Swift sick.

And so I wonder where the tissues to be used for research that this flap is about actually come from.

And I fear the worst, that they are "harvested" from killed late term fetuses that are undeniably murdered innocent human babies, killed for wholly frightful reasons.

George Will

Even apart from that it is in place to ask, since lawful "reproductive services" really are not health care services, why the government should be financing their provision, or requiring that employer insurance plans cover any or all such things, assuming all the while that government should be providing, or requiring employers or others to provide, health insurance for people at large.

Some of what PP does counts as real health care, I gather.

But much, maybe most, comes under the heading of "reproductive services," no?

It would be a step in the right direction for courts to stop lying about the constitution on this matter and let the states prohibit late term abortion.

Perhaps the Justice Department could even begin prosecuting later term abortions as violations of the killed infants' civil rights.

And defunding Planned Parenthood until and unless it restricts its activities to provision of actual health care might be a good thing, on the whole.