An 18-year-old woman in Chile has been arrested for trying to sell her unborn baby on Facebook. In Chile where abortion is legal—as it is in the United States—a young woman may kill but not sell her unborn child. 

This young woman was likely deceived by pro-abortion activists who tell women that the bodies of their unborn children are actually their (i.e., the mothers) own bodies despite the inconvenient fact that these babies are constituted by wholly distinct DNA. At no point in the gestational process was my son’s body my body.

And she may have been deceived by the implicit idea that the gestational location and lack of development of the unborn abrogate their right simply to exist.

And she may have been deceived by the lie that when “reproductive rights” come into direct conflict with the right of others simply to exist, “reproductive rights” win.  Perhaps someone will tell her that the right to exist is a right of a higher moral order than “reproductive rights” and, therefore, trumps them.

Add to this stew of toxic cultural lies, the coercion of people close to her (her mother and sister)—something that many women who seek abortions experience—and we shouldn’t be surprised at this outcome. Perhaps this young woman struggling to make sense of an incoherent moral view of prenatal life and human rights thought selling her baby was a morally superior choice to killing it. 

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