Worthy of Pravda

I know I shouldn't link to this but I recently came across an essay by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, called The Right to Abortion and the Whole Direction of Society. Mr. Avakian is one of those guys who Joe Carter would give a megaphone to.

Some excerpts:

And this is especially outrageous when they hurl this accusation of "baby-killers" at women (and doctors and others who assist them) who in fact are not "killing babies" but are carrying out a medical procedure which aborts a fetus, not a separate, developed human being (I will come back to this in a minute)....

These are ways that we can hit back hard at them, politically and ideologically, getting to what is the essence here: It is not the supposed "killing of babies," it is that they want women to be in essence the property of men, to be controlled by their husbands and to be breeders of children, breeders of property, for their husbands.....

It is also very important to be bringing things back to the reality of what 90 plus percent of abortions actually consist of--the fact that they are performed in the first trimester, the first three months of pregnancy, when the fetus is anywhere from the size of the period at the end of this sentence to about an inch in length.....

That's what we're talking about here. Physiologically and socially, that's essentially what we're talking about here--the fate of women vs. a clump of cells, which at that point (during the first three months in particular) are by no means even completely differentiated (into different organs and parts of the body with different specific functions) and certainly are not anything like a developed human being--and are, in fact, a tiny clump of cells.

The logic here is what? That the unborn aren't separate developed human beings because they are smaller than born children? That the unborn aren't developed human beings because they "are not anything like a developed human being?"

Back in the good ole' days of the USSR, Avakian's ignorant claims regarding fetal development might fly but we have a window to the womb.