Bruce Anderson

Abortion is a matter of aesthetics

Bruce Anderson says that the current discussion about when to terminate a foetus owes nothing to morality

issue 17 July 2004

Pictures are more powerful than principles. A few weeks ago, newspapers published photographs of a 12-week-old male foetus. It was not a blob of tissue but a proto-human. Yet for a further 12 weeks after the pictures were taken it would have been legal to kill this pre-baby in the womb.

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