Wanda Franz: Abortion is a human rights issue

 Insightful article on Dr. Wanda Franz, past president of National Right to Life for 20+ years. 

"This is a human rights issue. Like any other human rights issue, it's something that everyone should be concerned about," she said.
She believes that from conception, a fetus is a genetically unique, living human being, entitled to human rights. The seeds of her activism were planted in post-World War II Germany, where her father was in the U.S. military. She agonized over the genocide against Jews, gypsies and others.
"I knew the Germans. I played with the kids. They were ordinary people. It was so hard to understand how that could have happened," she said.
She found the philosophical origin of death camps in the German medical community of the 1930s. Doctors had promoted a policy of killing "life unworthy of life." Handicapped people were killed for the good of society."

I remember the excellent movie Expelled by Ben Stein when he interviewed a guide at a Holocaust camp and she said they referred to the prisoners as "useless eaters" prior to killing  them. I am re watching the 1988 TV series War and Remembrance via Netflex and reading  Night by Elie Wiesel.  I know pretty morbid stuff but this reminds me of what she said. When we dehumanize life and giving them labels leads to such disrespect that killing them does not bother anyone. My friend, Mimmi from Tanzania and a refugee of the genocide in Rwanda explained that they started by using dehumanizing terms for her tribe calling them cock roaches to start the desensitizing process that led ordinary people to become killers.
So when someone tries to tell you that abortion is a woman's issue be prepared to explain that it is a human rights issue.  Recently liberal commentator, Kirsten Powers, said  that research changed her into a pro life advocate as she realized it was a human rights issue.