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ovum. Since the zygote is a living human, and killing humans is an illegal act called homicide, abortion is murder, and murder is, of course, illegal. The pro-abortion community has for years clouded the issue of when life begins, but what the scientific community says is the rule by which everyone has to go by on issues like this one. The reason is that science is the most objective way to get to the truth when issues at hand are so emotional as to obscure the judgment of those those searching for the truth. People who do not know the stand of the scientific community often fall prey to the tactics of the abortion advocates and end up believing that abortion is not murder. The first issue- clouding act of the pro-abortion group was in 1973 just before the Supreme Court decided

Roe v. Wade. In 1973 the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) changed the definition of conception. “In the past, conception had been used as the equivalent of, and interchangeably with, fertilization. ACOG would make it equivalent to implantation, a process which goes on for days.” (Scientists for Life 29) Many other acts of abortion advocates that have obscured the subject were not done by pro-abortion groups, but people in positions of authority who believe in abortion-on-demand. The ancient Greek Hippocratic Oath for thousands of years contained the line “I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy” this sentence has now been dropped from most medical school commencement ceremonies. for 125 years, the American Medical Association (AMA) took a firm

anti-abortion position before the pro-abortion movement, declaring that abortion is the “unwarranted destruction of human life” (Knights of Columbus 2) the AMA denounced doctors who would perform abortions as “false to their professions, false to honor, false to humanity, false to God.” (Knights of Columbus 2) But, in 1989, the AMA called abortion a “fundamental right” that was to be found “free of state interference” in the absence of compelling justification. In 1963, Planned Parenthood insisted that their organization did not support abortion stating, “An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun.” (Knights of Columbus 2) Planned Parenthood is presently the self-proclaimed champion of the abortion cause. There are a variety of reasons why women

abort. Someone who supports abortion would have you believe that many if not most abortions are because the woman was a victim of rape or incest. In 1987, over a five-month period, the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) conducted a survey of 1,900 women throughout the United States for Planned Parenthood on why they had abortions. The vast majority were for personal convenience. 1% of the women surveyed had abortions because they were victims of rape or incest, 7% were attributed to threats to the mother’s psychological or physical health, 92% of the abortions were performed for social, economic, or personal reasons. There are hypocracies in the laws of the United States. In this country a woman can walk into a licensed clinic or hospital and have her unborn baby removed with no

legal repercussions for her or the doctor. Although, if this woman would have, through no fault of her own, been in an automobile accident on the way to this licensed facility and lost her baby due to this accident, the other driver would by law have been charged with fetal homicide and gone to jail. Furthermore the woman could have sued for wrongful death and become a millionaire. The same would be true if there was no wreck and she stopped on the way at a McDonald’s that was being robbed and got shot and as a result lost the child. As stated before, murder is illegal and abortion is murder. Therefore Roe v. Wade should be overturned and abortion should be made illegal. It is not that simple, however. The decision in Roe v.Wade cited constitutional principles for the legality

of abortion. “The [Supreme] Court declares the statutes void as vague and overbroadly infringing [the] plaintiff’s ninth and fourteenth amendment rights.” (Justice Blackmun) This excerpt from Justice Blackmun’s address cites the ninth amendment and the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. “Amendment IX. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” The due process clause of amendment XIV: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;