New book equates killing a baby with removing a wisdom tooth

On Sunday, Glamour published an excerpt of feminist writer Lindy West’s just-released book—and of course, the part deemed most share-worthy is the story of West having an abortion, because pro-aborts just can’t get enough of telling each other how brave they are for telling each other about their abortions.

What the snippet lacks in originality, though, it more than makes up for in inadvertent examples of why abortion shouldn’t be normalized.

Ever notice how common the phrase “common, legal, routine medical procedure” is? It’s like a magic chant, meant to ward off evil spirits by imbuing abortion with unquestionable legitimacy.

Who are the real fanatics? Pro-lifers, or people who put scare quotes around a term that Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, WebMD, and US Department of Health and Human Services all use to describe fetuses? People who reference destroying something that has “tiny fingernails” without batting an eye, or people with the crazy idea that having human characteristics might mean you’re human?

Yes, let’s keep on pretending it’s all just a religious-motivated fuss and there are no secular reasons to be against abortion. Apparently packaging propaganda as personal experiences or perspectives exempts an author from having to be truthful.

Speaking of the truth, pointing out that most abortions are sought for reasons less dire than health isn’t even close to suggesting women get them for anything resembling parties. But since she brings it up, pro-lifers weren’t the ones who suggested that having to buy new clothes, traveling, being spontaneous, “pushing the boundaries of selfishness,” “drink[ing] as much moscato as I damn well please,” and getting nose jobs were perfectly valid reasons for having abortions.

Repeatedly calling your live, human son or daughter a “tadpole” doesn’t change what he or she really was. As Micaiah Bilger at LifeNews notes:

West continues:

I don’t think that’s what West is really imagining, because frank talk would also entail speaking uncomfortable truths like “your little boy or girl was real, and abortion killed him or her.” Imagine, indeed.

Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino describes in the video below what actually happens when a woman takes the abortion pill:

1st Trimester Medical Abortion: Abortion Pills

West continues:

Shorter: I don’t care and it’s all about me. Once upon a time, total disregard for how someone’s actions harmed others, up to the point of literally pretending inconvenient people don’t exist, was nothing to brag about; in fact, those would be considered pretty strong indicators of a sociopath.

Today, it makes you a “feminist” and “social justice” icon. Thanks, bodily autonomy theory!

Enter the delusional persecution complex. It doesn’t matter how many hooks your extreme ideology has in all three branches of federal government, news and entertainment media, roughly half of the electorate, or education establishment—it doesn’t matter if a popular mainstream women’s magazine is giving you space to say whatever you want—the imaginary “taboo” against your persecuted, underdog stance persists.

Witnessing “mangled fetus photos” and not pausing to consider what they show you suggests you still don’t think about the subject.

Unless you count the wisdom tooth not being alive (and therefore not dying when removed), not being a separate human being, not having its own DNA, not being in the process of growing toward a future as a member of society with hopes and dreams of its own. Other than that, abortion is exactly like oral surgery.

Abortion may not be the “taboo subject” Lindy West imagines, but her callous, dishonest, narcissistic rant perfectly demonstrates why it should be.