Abortion is more than numbers

Bravo for Fr. Araujo’s  response to Cass Sunstein. However, I think he radically understates what is at stake by simply calling attention to the number of lives lost because of Roe v. Wade. The right to abortion is emblematic of a wider shift to lethal betrayals of radically dependent persons, betrayals that are rationalized precisely by the victims’ lack of autonomy-based dignity. We have just seen this in the subtle as well as crude attacks on Trig Palin. I develop this point in the context of Catholic thought here.