Rebecca Bradley compared abortion to the Holocaust in student column

In a college newspaper column, Supreme Court Justice and candidate Rebecca Bradley compared the practice of abortion to the Holocaust and slavery and criticized it in a range of cases, including to save the life of the mother.

Bradley wrote in 1992 for the Marquette Tribune that the killing of fetuses was similar to the less than human treatment once accorded to Jews and blacks, providing a window into her views on abortion that candidates to the state’s highest court rarely offer.

“Where does any difference lie between mutilating a baby in the womb (a legal act) and murdering one’s child outside of the womb (an obviously illegal act)… Why do some create an absurd distinction between torturing a baby in a uterus and torturing a baby in a crib?” Bradley wrote.

“Do not be persuaded by any pleas for a woman’s right to control her body or ‘choose’ to be pregnant or not; they have no moral or ethical basis.”