Anti-abortion movement
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
The phrase "every sperm is sacred", taken from the Monty Python song of the same name, has become proverbial in the abortion debate. Pro-choice activists have sung the song outside abortion clinics to ridicule their opponents, legal scholars have alluded to it in discussions of women's reproductive rights, and it is used generally to do what has been described as "[exposing] the absurdity of the anti-choice argument when taken to its extreme" ("Body Narratives, Body Boundaries" (1992) by Emily Martin) |
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Anti-abortion movements, also referred to as Pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in response to the legalization of elective abortions.
Abortion is defined as the termination of a human pregnancy, and often accompanied by the death of the embryo or the fetus.
See also
- Anti-abortion violence
- Crisis pregnancy center
- Fetal rights
- Mildred Fay Jefferson (founder of National Right to Life PAC)
- History of abortion law debate