"Watching My First Abortion"

Newsweek's main abortion writer talks about witnessing her first abortion. You can read about it here. Her last paragraph made me flinch a bit. She writes:

Abortion may be a simple procedure medically, but it is not cancer surgery. It's an elective procedure that no one—neither its defenders nor its detractors—expects to elect for themselves. I had (and still have) difficulty understanding my own reaction, both relieved to have watched a minimally invasive surgery and distressed by the emotionality of the process. Abortion involves weighty choices that, depending on how you view it, involve a life, or the potential for life. And my reaction, complicated and conflicted as it was, may have been a reflection of our national ambivalence about a private medical procedure at the center of a very public debate.

We have to be clear that a pregnancy is not "potential life". Just because a life form is dependent on another doesn't me it's not life. My 9-month-old daughter is VERY dependent upon my wife and I for her very life. Does this mean that we should have the right to dispose of her as we see fit?

Also, things that grow are living. This is biology 101. The baby in the mother's womb is growing. This means it is not "potential life". It is life.

I would also add that everyone on both sides of the the issue should watch the movie, Lake of Fire. I wrote about my experience watching it here.

(HT: @iMonk)