Op-Ed: This Pro-Life Bill Treats Babies Like a Special Kind of Garbage

Suppose that rape were legal in the United States. Suppose also that an anti-rape advocacy group were to respond by proposing a bill that keeps rape perfectly legal and refuses to punish rapists — as long as the rapist drops his victim at a local shelter once he is finished with her.

We would rightly question whether that anti-rape group actually wants to ban rape. We would even question whether that group considers rape a heinous moral evil in the first place.

But this exact same incoherence has been displayed by Students for Life, which is championing a bill that keeps abortion legal — as long as the corpse of the murdered baby is not flushed down the toilet afterward.

The so-called Clean Water for All Life Act, proposed in several states over the past few years and in Congress last week, centers on the increasing prevalence of abortion pills,