Late Term Abortion and Coathangers

Jennifer Fulwiler has a post up on the National Catholic Register about late term abortions and coathangers. In a word, the two have nothing to do with each other. As she notes, a more appropriate symbol for use in abortion after 20 weeks would be a noose, because at that point in time, a coat hanger isn't going to cut it.

Of course, a coathanger gets across their message about back-alley abortions (though I don't think they used coathagers in those, either) and is perhaps a deliberate bit of disinformation, as if to imply that the child being murdered at that point is so undeveloped that a coathanger would be effective. A noose would certainly be more accurate: executed for the "crime" of needing a womb to breathe, and additionally a hangman's noose often ends the hung man's life by breaking his neck. That is pretty accurate, since an aborted child's bones are certainly broken (and limbs severed, painfully). Actually, the noose would be a piece of mercy by contrast.

But truth has never been the pro-abortion side's forte. Propaganda, perhaps, but not really truth.