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From a New York Times article about laws allowing parents to get birth certificates for stillborn children:

“At a level of great abstraction, there are probably some people who worry that recognizing a nonviable fetus as a person would in some way be a seed that could sprout into a threat to abortion,” said Roger Evans, a lawyer for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “But I don’t think we see it that way. We recognize the tragedy and loss of stillbirth, and as long as these laws are medically accurate, and the certificates are optional and commemorative, they’re a way to recognize that loss.”

Excuse me, but how can Planned Parenthood recognize the loss of a stillborn child when they don’t recognize it as a life to begin with?

This is the absurdity of the pro-abortion position.  If the mother wants a child and loses it during the pregnancy, that’s a tragedy.  If a mother doesn’t want the baby and kills it during the pregnancy, that’s a perfectly moral affirmation of her feminine rights.  According to them.

Yet how have we found ourselves in a position where a baby’s legal status as a person hinges entirely upon the mother’s whims and wants?  If you punch a pregnant woman in the belly and kill her child that she wanted you can be charged with murder.  If you’re a doctor and you help that woman kill her baby because she doesn’t want it...that’s perfectly legal.

Why should we let one person’s opinion hold sway over whether or not another person is, in fact, a person?