Posted by
Anticontrarian on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:17:49 AM
The case of the teenaged Italian girl whose parents legally forced her to have an abortion despite her own desire to have her baby is sure to provoke massive outrage on the “pro-choice” left.
But in fact the only thing at all unusual about this case is that the force was applied through the courts rather than only in private – and that we’re therefore hearing about it at all. It’s certainly far more common for young girls and women to be pressured into abortions by their embarrassed parents or their apprehensive (older) impregnators than for them to be forced to be unwilling broodmares à la Margaret Atwood.