Elizabeth R. Schiltz has been called a “genetic outlaw.” An associate professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, Professor Schiltz did the unthinkable — she received a diagnosis that the child she was carrying would be a Down syndrome baby, and she did not abort.

America has been embroiled in a seemingly endless debate over the
issue of abortion for four decades now, but the most fascinating
dispute on this issue may now be among those who consider themselves,
in one way or another, advocates of abortion rights.

Can anything break the commitment of ideological feminists to abortion? A report out of India will test that question. According to The Daily Mail [London], at least 10 million baby girls have been aborted in India over the last twenty years – and likely millions more.

Michael Kinsley, now a columnist for Slate, thinks he has caught evangelical Christians and others in the pro-life movement in a net of hypocrisy. As he sees it, when many pro-lifers argue against the use (and necessary destruction) of human embryos in medical research, they are really acting (or thinking) in a basically hypocritical fashion. In other words, we really do not believe what we say.

“Even other doctors call us the baby killers,” says Dr. Christopher Estes of Columbia University’s medical school. Dr. Estes insists that these other doctors are speaking “tongue-in-cheek,” but the fact is that many medical students resist any training in abortion. After all, they are studying to heal, not to kill.

What would happen if Roe v. Wade were reversed? That question interests both sides in this nation’s abortion debate, and no one can know just how each state would respond — but some states have already signaled their intentions.

Dr Anil Sabhani, a physician and abortionist in India’s northern state of Haryana has been convicted, along with his X-ray technician, of offering to perform a sex-selection abortion after an ultrasound test indicated that the baby would be a girl.

Government regulators now report that two more women have died after taking RU-486, the abortion pill that pro-abortion forces have championed in the name of women’s rights.