By Dave Andrusko

Cynthia Nixon
As the last post of the day, this topic will get less attention than it probably deserves. Since is part of a passel of pro-abortion articles in TIME magazine, Cynthia Nixon’s “Motherhood and Abortion Are Two Sides of the Same Coin” may wind up getting a second, if even briefer, look.
Her essay hauls in the usual pro-abortion power points items and concludes with “The fundamental right to abortion must be here to stay.” For our purposes today, here’s an excerpt from the fourth from the last paragraph. Nixon writes
I am convinced that abortion rights are human rights not only because of compassion for my mother but also because I myself am a mother of three. Many of us who made the decision to become parents have experienced an unquenchable desire for parenthood. But that in no way mutes our desire for abortion to be safe, legal and available. It’s two sides of the same coin. Motherhood is a primary part of my life, which is precisely the reason I fight for reproductive rights.
Nothing but nothing could possibly illustrate the pro-life/pro-abortion divide more tellingly. (Although we will not explore it here, this six-of-one, half-dozen-of-the-other notion is also rampant in the physician-assisted suicide debate.)
Just a couple of points. (By the way, it doesn’t dawn on Nixon that a woman is a mother when she is carrying the baby she subsequently aborts.)
Her argument is a familiar one but that doesn’t make it any the less incoherent. Killing your child is merely one option on a decision tree that includes (as another pro-abortion writer who was also trying to win her share of the “pro-family” market) “contraception, access to good prenatal care, and the right of any woman to have a child.”
Preventing the creation of a new life/ending that new life/taking care of the new life that you allow to be born are all equally valid choices, just part of the “continuum.”
Or, more bluntly, Nixon sees an equivalency between delivering a child alive and intact and delivering a child dead and in pieces