One of the myths still perpetuated by the pro-legalized-abortion crowd is that the unborn child is a "blob of cells".
I am certain most educated people, when they stop to think about it, know that a fetus is not really a blob of cells. After all, this is what fetuses look like:
8 weeks
10 weeks
14 weeks
18 weeks
5 months
Now, do they look like "a few dividing cells" to you?
Of course not.
But that's part of the rhetorical strategy.
The strategy is to play down the unborn child. Make it seem less than what he actually is.
I think it's important to point out that glaring, visual discrepancy.
The pro-legalized-abortion crowd tries to avoid close examination of the fetus and, especially, the abortion procedure. It's not a pretty procedure. The terminology is shielded in euphemism, abstraction and doublespeak. They want to acknowledge as little as possible that abortion terminates the life of a fetus. They barely, if ever, acknowledge, that the fetus is a living being, let alone a human being, and that abortion terminates the life of the fetus. They do not want that discussion.
If we are ever to advance fetal rights, we must simply assert that fetal rights exist. Abortion is not the main issue: it's the fact that unborn children are not acknowledged to be equals. That is the root of the problem. The dynamic of that assertion will require the pro-legalized-abortion crowd to address that issue sooner or later. And they will be forced to account for the fact they fawn over their own unborn children, but do not accord them equality; that they are willing to consider them family members one week, but not the next if they are diagnosed with a disease; that they treat unborn children as people EXCEPT when the abortion issue comes up, then the equivocations and qualifications about the unborn child being a "potential" child come up.
It's not their sense of morality that's necessarily at fault; it's their sense of the value of the unborn child.
