Many people have different views regarding abortion. Is it right or wrong? Should there be exceptions whereby abortion is ethical? Why has the American society (or the world) come to accept abortion as an everyday practice no more significant than an appendectomy? Has the world as a whole become desensitized to the violence that is widely known as "medical procedure." As long as abortion seems right now, will it be all right later?

In the middle of the 19th century most states, under the goading of physicians wishing to establish the scientific significance of abortion, adapted laws that severely restricted the availability of abortions. Illegal abortions were widespread, though their exact number is impossible to determine, and many women died because of the unsanitary conditions in which illegal abortions were sometimes performed. Not until the "revolution" of the 1950's-1960 did the political issues regarding abortion become publicized or debated in such magnitude. "In the 1960's and early 1970's the discovery that thalidomide, a drug that many woman had used in early stages of pregnancy to relieve morning sickness, occasionally caused birth defects, as well as the highly pub

In early America the assumption was that these "savages" were "less than human." That was how their mistreatment was justified. It was all a matter of convenience. Then later it was assumed the Africans were "inferior savages" and "less than human." Again that is what justified their mistreatmant. It also was a matter of convenience.

As the colonies grew, the African slave trade began in America. Native Africans were purchased in Africa and forcibly brought to America to provide forced labor. African slaves were transported in the most horrible ways imaginable. William Kilgore has conceived that most slaves never even survived their trans-Atlantic journey to America. Those who survived the trip to America were traded and herded like cattle, stripped of education, dignity, and culture. We look back now (hopefully) and wonder how we, as "civilized" human beings could even think of treating other human beings the way we did. How can we justify this behavior towards our own brothers.

Are we not cowards to let this go on? Why do we elect and reelect leaders who approve of the mass destruction of our future generations? We have outdone Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mousilinni! As long as America allows such laws as these, participates in such activities, and perverts the knowledge that God has so graciously given us for the benefit of helping other we will be judged. Man has no right to decide who should have the privilege of life. God alone claims absolute sovereignty and right over life and death.

The Reagan and Bush administrations were very strong supporters of the right-to-life positions, as did many of their appointees to the federal judiciary. The Supreme Court, though sharply divided, generally declared unconstitutional those laws it found to place an unprecedented burden on a woman's right to obtain an abortion. For example,"...in 1983 the court reviewed three laws-from Akron, Ohio;Missouri; and Virginia-and struck down provisions requiring (1)

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