IMMIGRATION AND ABORTION: TWO SIDES OF “THE OTHER”

At the heart of metaphor is the ability to see relationships between seemingly unrelated things. For instance, there are some ways in which “my Luve” is like “a red, red rose.” (Bobby Burns–simile being a subset of metaphor.) I want to propose a relationship between our attitudes about immigrants/immigration and about the unborn/abortion, one that presents a moral challenge to all socio-political ideologies.
The concept of “the Other” (thank you Hegel, Husserl, de Beauvoir, et al) has suffered the fate of many other once useful concepts and become a generic slogan ...