AGAINST ABORTION

There is no more divisive social subject in America than abortion. Despite the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision to "legalize" the woman's right to choose an abortion, as more and more conservative Christians join the mainstream, there are not merely vocal but also physical antagonisms on the subject. Doctors have been killed, clinics firebombed, and confrontations between the two "sides" have seldom ended peacefully. The purpose of this essay is to provide some reasons, and documentation, why the idea of "pro-choice", or the woman's "freedom to choose" what to do with her body is morally perverted and wrong.

All of us have feelings about abortion, including the doctors who perform them, or refuse to do so, as well as the psychiatrists who often need to counsel and treat women for whom abortion is a mental as well as moral conflict. As one psychiatrist writes: "àwe often treat female patients who have had an abortion and feel upset. guilty or uneasy about the choice they made. The decision to have an abortion is not an easy one, and the procedure itself leaves patients with a h

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ical and competent advocates against abortion, then there are no one's rights being trampled and no hatred involved. But, the truth is that the anti-abortion issue has brought out some figures who seek publicity (and are getting it). Jerry Falwell and the development of the Moral Majority come to mind immediately. It was nothing less than a fund-raising effort. "Having founded the Moral Majority in June 1979, Falwell took to the airwavesàto initiate a major fundraising effort. His own personal mailing list of some 250,000 supporters formed the initial base for thisà" (O'Connor 84). Incidentally, according to O'Connor (85) the Moral Majority's initial; fundraising campaign brought in more than one million dollars a week. What all this fund-raising, and the attempt to turn evangelical Christians into a political force forgets about is the fundamental morality of abortion. It has been turned into a "cause", when what is really needed is some self-examination and a reliance on one's fundamental beliefs in the right to life. One can argue for eternity about when life begins. But, it might be wise to stop worrying about chronology, and worry instead about finding some means to extend that fetus' life and, hopefully, have it become
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