Make It Informed Choice. Let Her See The Baby

Let every woman seeking abortion see the actual image of the baby she's willing to destroy. In his National Post article, Jonathan Kay outlines his arguments in defense of this seemingly cruel but morally necessary exercise:

One of the lamentable results of the culture wars is that women have been taught to regard abortion — a medically profound event that either kills, or pre-empts, a unique, genetically determinate human being — as if it were merely an act of feminist self-empowerment. Showing a mother an image of her soon-to-be-dead fetus will disabuse her of that myth.

Over time, such a policy might also render a more humane society. It is no coincidence that monstrous crimes are most common under governments that deliberately shield their citizens from the moral consequences of their actions. In the Soviet Union, abortion was used as a means of birth control. (In latter decades, each Soviet mother had, on average, four abortions.) And why not? The all-knowing state said it was OK. In other communist nations, orphaned babies were warehoused in conditions that ordinary people would have found shocking — had they been allowed to observe them.

This is more or less the template that Canada's militant pro-abortion advocates are following. Last month, the National Post's Charles Lewis profiled the tactics that university radicals are using to shut down the abortion debate on Canadian campuses. At the University of Guelph, the Central Student Association has informed Life Choice, an anti-abortion student club, that it would not be accredited because its message allegedly offends women. The controversy mirrors a similar episode at York University, whose student government banned a pro-life group under an identical pretext last summer.
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In other words, pro-abortion radicals don't just want a country where abortion is free and easy, but where consciences are as well — where a woman who gets an abortion is not only exempt from legal sanction, but also exempt from the natural moral reflection that, in a humane society, inevitably accompanies major bioethical choices. And to make that wish come true, they're willing to shut up anyone trying to tell women the other side of the story.

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Jonathan's article may seem a little bit too optimistic to pro-lifers who are familiar with the actual state of affairs. Lack of laws that would require abortion providers to inform women about the consequences of their decision (let alone - about fetal development) is just part of the problem. To make things worse, several provinces won't even allow devoted volunteers to hand out information brochures anywhere near abortion facilities.

Ignorance is power. Especially - for those who take advantage of someone else's ignorance. Abortionists and their supporters each have their reasons to hide the simple fact that an unborn baby is a human too.