Protesters at the Supreme Court in March 2020, when the justices were hearing arguments in June Medical Services LLC v. Russo. Photo by Robin Bravender | Arizona Mirror
Gov. Doug Ducey and Republican legislators want you to believe they’re defenders of the preborn. They recently bestowed civil rights to fetuses, while criminalizing doctors who terminate pregnancies based on “genetic abnormalities.”
But what about the millions of preborn babies men toss into the trash or flush down the toilet after masturbating? Don’t those potential lives count, too?
Some of you will think this is a ridiculous line of thinking. Sperm is not human. They cannot continue to grow or develop without a woman’s egg or outside the female body. But the same can be said for fetuses.
Without a woman’s body, a fetus in early stages of development cannot survive. And millions of Americans view this fact as reason enough to classify fetuses as “potential humans” much the same way we classify sperm and eggs.