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Possibly the only thing on which I am closer to the Republicans than the Democrats is abortion.

And that is because support for the alleged right of women to kill their unborn children, which ought to be denied the shelter of the privacy right given it in Roe, is the absolute core of modern feminism, and because feminists are so strong within the Democratic Party they have made it a litmus test issue for Democratic candidates.

In my view - except for the first couple of weeks of pregnancy, before actual organs begin to develop, during which it is intrinsically unobjectionable, though perhaps it still would be best for it to be illegal - abortion is the killing of an unborn child and ought to be illegal, just as is infanticide.

In fact, woman should have legally enforceable duties of care for their unborn children, just as parents have such duties regarding their children who have already been born.

But what women want is the right to commit murder, and without any interference from anyone, not even the fathers of their children, not even the parents of pregnant minors.

And they want that more than anything else on their feminist todo list, many of the items on which are there only to defend or entrench that right.

It occurs to me that Immanuel Kant somewhere wrote that prohibitions of cruelty to animals were necessary, though animals have no rights and no moral standing in themselves, in order to prevent humans being even more vicious and brutal toward each other than they are.

Surely someone must see how this applies to the question whether abortion ought to be prohibited, even if it is believed or anyway alleged that unborn children are not children or have no rights.

Though it has been argued by some utilitarian ethicists - perhaps previously employed at Buchenwald and widely admired by liberals -  that killing a mature ape or adult chimpanzee is morally much worse than even killing a human infant, and much, much worse than abortion.

Trump Administration to Tie Health Facilities’ Funding to Abortion Restrictions

But this is horrible, malicious, ugly, misogynist Nativism.

Trump Administration Wants to Shut Door on Abused Women