Among the millions of people in the pro-life movement, the vast majority are women, including most of its leaders.  To suggest that this female-dominated entity seeks to squash other women, or doesn’t trust women, would be silly if it were not so condescending.  This is just another shabby tactic the abortion lobby uses to keep from having to defend abortion. 

To understand how truly asinine this “trust women” rhetoric is, imagine someone opposing laws against rape or incest because he “trusts men to be their own moral agents.” 

Or imagine that a woman is scheduled to have an abortion tomorrow, but gives birth in her home today.  If the baby survives, should she be allowed to kill it?  After all, the child was going to be killed the next day anyway.  Why should she lose her “right to choose” because of a premature delivery that was completely beyond her control?  Is she only allowed to pay someone else to kill her baby, but not allowed to kill it herself?  Are we saying that we only trust women to make good moral decisions while they’re pregnant? 

If we are supposed to just blindly trust women, why not trust them across the board?  Let each woman make her own moral choice about whether to stop at red lights, embezzle money from her employer, write bad checks, use cocaine, or become a prostitute.  Let’s  also exempt all female business owners from discrimination laws which make it illegal for companies to refuse employment or service to minorities.  In fact, since every law on the books prevents women from choosing to engage in a particular activity and says that women can’t be trusted to make that decision, shouldn’t the pro-choice mob be screaming that women should be exempted from all laws?  Do they trust women or don’t they?
 The reality is that the only reason for the  law to even exist is because people – men and women – can’t be trusted to always do what’s right.  Laws are necessary to keep them from inflicting their immoral decisions on others. 

Clearly, this “trust women” rhetoric is a sham.  By using the term “moral agents” to describe women who submit to abortion, the pro-choice gang hopes to create the illusion that women who pay to have their children slaughtered do so out of some kind of moral conviction.  It’s just a rhetorical shell-game to make abortion seem morally defensible.