If abortion were outlawed, all of the unwanted children would be quickly adopted. Every child should be a wanted child. In 1990, in New York alone, more than 62,000 children were in foster care and over 129,700 child abuse and neglect cases were reported. While the anti-choice forces are claiming that the answer is adoption, not abortion, the reality of the situation is that all over the country children are being abused, abandoned, and neglected because no one will take care of them. According to anti-choice groups, the right to life itself is the greatest gift of all.
Abortion is morally akin to the Holocaust.
It has become a prevalent trend among anti-choice factions to equate the legality of abortion to the atrocity of the Holocaust. This statement is notable only for its shock value. To even remotely equate the two, especially in such a cavalier manner, offends not only Jews but everyone in society who is aware of the horrors of the Nazis. There are no legitimate or acceptable analogies. Marlena Sobel, a recent graduate of Suffolk Law School in Boston, was an intern at the Institute for First Amendment Studies last summer.