There is no better example of the palliation of sin than in the existing attitude towards abortion. Looking back to that time in our history, it is easy for our peculiar sense of moral outrage to ask how the people of that day could stand by and allow such an obviously wicked institution as slavery to exist. One wonders if future generations will ask the same question of our generation. No prosecutor has ever returned a murder indictment charging the taking of the life of a fetus. This would not be the case if the fetus constituted human life.
Woman is free to make the basic decision whether to bear an unwanted child.
Elaborate argument is hardly necessary to demonstrate that childbirth may deprive a woman of her preferred lifestyle and force upon her a radically different and undesired future. . . . The vicissitudes of life produce pregnancies which may be unwanted, or which may impair health in the broad Vuitch sense of the term, or which may imperil the life of the mother, or which, in the full setting of the case, may create such suffering, dislocations, misery, or tragedy as to make an early abortion the only civilized step to take. . O. Douglas - Roe v Wade. By the outbreak of World War II, actions taken against the Jews included marking them and ghettoizing them. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.