American Taliban

This past week, Texas Republicans passed the “Fetal Heartbeat” bill, a law banning abortion after the heartbeat of the fetus can be detected, usually around 6 weeks after conception. Many pro-lifers cheered this law as a victory for life while many pro-choice advocates decried it as an abomination, against freedom, and dubbed the Texas Republicans, the “American Taliban”. Regardless of the Constitutionality or practicality of this law, it opens the door to a real and legitimate discussion about the true nature of abortion, a discussion that is rarely had, but should always precede any public stance, or legislative action on abortion.

Many pro-abortion proponents hold that position because they believe a fetus is a mere “blob of cells”. But in reality, every human being can be characterized as a “blob of cells”. Look at your skin, look at your blood, look at your organs under a high-power microscope, look at any part of your body that makes you you, and you will see that the very things that we believe define who we are physically are simple a conglomeration of cells. So, to reduce a fetus to its base elements, and then compare those base elements to another being without similarly reducing that being is purposely misleading, and prejudicial against the humanity of the fetus.