The Food and Drug Administration will soon release a new policy that will allow 17-year-old girls to gain access to an abortive medicine known as Plan B. Though many consider it nothing more than contraception, it has the ability to kill off a fertilized egg by preventing it from attaching itself to the uterus. Therefore, it is an abortifacient.

Although it should come as no surprise that the new administration would move forward on opening up new abortive opportunities to children, we should be appalled by the reasoning.

U.S. District Judge Edward Korman has made the claim that the Bush Administration allowed politics rather than science to guide their decision to refrain from giving 17-year-old kids abortifacients. Given all we know about a baby’s development–the heart pumping within 3 weeks of conception, brain activity within a month and a half, etc–what “science” are abortion supporters clinging to in order to justify killing babies? It’s strange how the left loves to cry out, “Follow science, not your faith,” and yet when it comes to abortion, they ignore the facts to continue their political pandering.

The question of when life begins is dead. There is no question. The left has never distinguished a point of viability in the womb where they are satisfied in not aborting. The fact that partial-birth abortion even exists, and is argued for by educated people in positions of power, shows us how morally depraved the pro-abortion movement has become.

Abortion-rights advocates march under the banner of “women’s health,” but as time goes on we hear less of that and more of “women’s rights.” It’s a quick fade to black when this awful practice tries to act in the name of good because it’s morally inconsistent to claim that women deserve rights while roughly half of abortions are of baby girls. As Mother Theresa said, “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”