“Generations for Life” - “The Youth Outreach of the Pro-Life Action League” (a group of mid-twenties bloggers, 2/3 of them men, attempting to provide “outreach to [the] new pro-life generation”), has a lot of growing up to do. More specifically, they’ve got a lot of ill thinking and deep-seated confusion to overcome.

A recent post by GFL Director Annie Casselman proposes a series of “twists” on the theme of a woman with an unwanted pregnancy, and asks in each case whether she should be permitted to have the abortion she wants. Casselman imagines that that right is somehow weakened by being pregnant in “unusual” circumstances - she does not even bother to raise the usual anti-choice objections to abortion in general, but somehow seems to think that, even if a “typical” abortion is permissible, there are cases in which third parties can lay claim to a woman’s body simply by asserting one. If nothing else, she demonstrates how absolutely unable anti-choicers of whatever generation are to imagine that a woman’s bodily autonomy actually means anything.

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