Presidential race 2016

[Duchess]

Pro-Life leaders/advocates and politicians like Ted Cruz view abortion as a violent act against the woman and the unborn child. Whether the abortion is legal or not, they view both the woman and the fetus as victims of whomever performs the abortion. They believe the woman had to have been desperate or misguided to make such a choice. If abortion becomes illegal, then they will be able to legally punish the perpetrator (the doctor, in their view). That's my understanding.

I just have an aversion to the word victim and I particularly don't like it in this case as the victim is the one making the decision. I can't know this of course but I feel confident that all those "victims" would own their decision. It shows poor judgement for a group of people to absolve the decision maker.