Sister Apple? Oh, Brother!: Abortion harms the living, too by Daniel Clark In an attempt to reverse a decades-long decline for their cause, pro-abortion activists have decided to become more strident. Gone is their defensive safe, legal and rare rhetoric, replaced by the more confrontational slogan, Abortion on demand, without apology! Rather than concede that abortion is undesirable, they hope to destigmatize it by speaking about it more openly.