Defenders of legal abortion succeed when abortion is obscured, the facts are hidden, and the discussion is centered on anything but the actual abortion procedure. Social movements such as the civil rights movement succeeded because the victims decided they would not be victims anymore. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, “[F]reedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” The problem with abortion is that the victims can’t become angry and demand change. They can’t do anything to help themselves. Instead, advocates have
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