What antiabortion activists often miss is the complexity of the issue that they face. Calling abortion murder in every case is completely unjustified. It may not always be the best path to choose, but there are cases where the process can be morally justified.

For example, if a woman’s life is on the line. She has the right to live, doesn’t she? The case of rape is another constantly ignored scenario or one in which the future mother may not be willing or able to bring up a child alone.

Adoption is, unfortunately, not always a perfectly feasible option, and some people have moral qualms about abandoning their children after birth. Abortion, at the early stages, merely accomplishes what nature does every so often in the female body.

Perhaps most antiabortion activists realize all this, but if so they should state it more frequently in order to clarify their position. Otherwise, they should consider the idea that if abortion is one murder, then masturbation must be mass murder.

Now excuse me while I go legally murder a couple million unborn babies…

Edward Basom

Sophomore

Engineering