That’s what makes Antonia Senior’s op-ed “Yes, Abortion is Killing. But It’s the Lesser Evil,” which appeared in the London Times, so interesting. It provides a glimpse into what very well may be the future of the abortion debate.
The article is gaining considerable attention in the pro-life community because of its candor and honesty. Senior presents herself as a once blind adherent to the pro-abortion party line, shouting its catch phrases and following the movement without question. However, she says, when she had children, her perspective changed, as she realized that her daughter was “unmistakingly herself, her own person—forged in [Senior’s] womb, not by [Senior's] mothering.” She states that a fetus is life “by any subjective measure.”
You would think that these revelations would lead Senior to a more pro-life stance. However, she takes it even a step further and says that the “nearly 200,000 aborted babies in the UK every year are the lesser evil,” because “you cannot separate women’s rights from their right to fertility control.”
The lives of some, then, are less important that other lives. Not all are equal. Women's rights trump all.