I Would Support Abortion, If...

I suppose my admittedly strident and dogmatic opposition to abortion wouldn't be encased with such stubborn sorrow and anger if just one thing about the practice were changed. That one change would be giving the fetus awaiting termination access to legal counsel - or at the very least, a prison law library.

This way, the fetus would be given the knowledge that he or she has the right to a trial by a jury of his or her peers before being executed. The unborn, condemned criminal would even be wise to the notion of claiming that he or she was framed, or even that he or she was legally insane at the time of his or her crime.

The condemned could also learn about a motion to lessen the category of his or her crime, so that maybe it could be reclassified as "involuntary," as the fetus awaiting extermination committed his or her deed by no premeditation or malice of his or her own. The fetus could also learn about pre-trial motions, and that a change of venue would be in his or her favor. The womb can be a very a biased place.

See also: My Objection to Capital Punishment