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NY Times on abortion as baby killing
The New York Times refers to a program in North Korea mostly involving compulsory termination of pregnancy as “prison baby killings”. It’s true some of the infants are killed a few seconds after they would have been candidates for death by intact dilation and evacuation—that is, immediately after birth—but the emphasis in the article and in the program is on abortion. What’s going on here? It seems odd that the mother’s choice or in some cases the passage of a few seconds should change something the Times views as an absolutely fundamental human right into “baby killing.” They could have protested the procedure as a violation of the women’s right to choose or (except in the case of the slightly delayed ID&Es) to control her own body, but they didn’t. Why?
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