"No human being is subordinate to another"
What exactly is a fetus?

So killing Jews is morally permissible because it expresses fidelity to the principle of Palestinian emancipation.
And killing Palestinians is morally permissible because it expresses fidelity to the Jewish-Zionist emancipation.
Stalin's murders are morally justified of course because it expressed fidelity to communism and the emancipation of the proletariat.
Perhaps Nazism and the holocaust can also be morally justified as an expression of fidelity to modern art?

All about Alain Badiou all right, crazy individual views abound - but why have we not read about what Sam Ben-Meir thinks about all that?

"that no human being is subordinate to another...." The baby at the end of a suction tip is surely subordinate to another, a vile bully. Franky, I thought this article balderdash. Every abortion kills a baby, that's why we talk so incessantly about it! Trying to justify it with this sample of convoluted argumentation. Today I was given a big hug by a burly young man whose mother's midwife I was ! I vividly recall his arrival into this world...I know a baby when I see one..in utero or outside utero. People, who write like this make me suspect they have little else to fill in their days and little joie de vivre...it was obvious to me today as I looked at all the children who had descended from the woman we were burying just who will inherit the earth... the offspring of women who give life to the children they conceive..

What a load of inexcusable bollocks.

Whatever the physiological necessity of the woman motivating her to choose abortion as an alternative to inconvenience to her free will, (herein spoken of as equality), the biological necessity of preservation of the species, overrides her free will and selfish choices to consciously murder a child.

She should be shot as reward for selfish choices which threaten the existence and greater good of the collective society, she is born to perpetuate by God and nature.

She has obligations which preclude her from free choice!

Dear Dan,

One can only combat one's own selfishness - never others'.
It is by free will that selfishness is eventually won over.
Abstaining from shooting others because we don't like what they say or do, is a good place to begin.

Overcoming selfishness is an organic and slow growth process.
Taking away others' choices, immoral as they might be, cannot help them overcome their selfishness one iota. It is like pulling up a seedling in order to "help" it grow faster...

While there are good reasons why abortion is immoral (more often than not), preservation of the species is not one of them: that argument is based on personal preferences and is no more rational than Badiou's silly "fidelity to emancipation".
The preservation of the [human] species is not a moral imperative to begin with, but anyway, for every woman who wants to abort there are 50 women who want to have their baby, thus abortion cannot make a significant dent in human population.

Selfishly murdering babies, tiny and undeveloped as they may be, is by no means a moral thing to do, but selfishly murdering and eating animals when they are far more developed, physically and emotionally, than these babies, is no less immoral. One may not conscientiously cry out about the former, then fill their stomach with the latter.

The human species is overrated!

Yes a load of bollocks. And besides which apart from the very few people who are interested in academic philosophy hardly anyone even knows of Badiou.
Meanwhile with rare exceptions humankind has always subjected its babies, toddlers, infants and children to systematic body, soul and psychological violence. Such is especially the case in the US.
http://violence.de/index.html
http://ttfuture.org
The psychohistory website specializes in describing how this collective violence is dramatized on to the world stage.
http://www.psychohistory.com