Abortion

**Abortion** (from Latin *aborīrī* "to pass away") is the induced termination of a pregnancy and, therefore, of a human life, so that sexual intercourse, most of the times irresponsible, does not result in the birth of a child. It is a method of depopulation and eugenics promoted mainy by left wing activists. It has two victims: the unborn child whose life is ended, and the mother who suffers a series of physical and mental problems.

It is also euphemized as the "interruption of a pregnancy"  and "a woman's right to choose *[over her own body]*" and is often included among the list of sexual, human or reproductive rights.

It is a billion-dollar industry in the United States. Although Planned Parenthood likes to claim abortion accounts for just 3% of its services, according to its 2007-08 budget, it received $1.038 billion of revenue, and half to two-thirds relates to its abortion services. Between 2010 and 2014 an estimate of 55.7 million abortions took place around the world per year (222,800,000 total approx.), having as a result the loss of more lives than military deaths in WWII.

## History

### **Ancient World**

The history of abortion goes back thousands of years, and abortion has been opposed by ethical doctors for just as long. Many pro-abortionists argue that all views on abortion as a moral evil are purely a religious notion and are not to be taken care of in a secular state. However, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, expressly prohibited abortion in his ethical Oath, which is an oath historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards written between the third and the 5th century BC:

> I swear by Apollo the Healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, Panacea and all the gods and godesses that [...] I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Historically all medical school graduates took the Oath of Hippocrates upon graduation, but due to pressure from pro-abortion groups only one school uses the Oath in its original form, and only 8% of the schools include the ban on abortion in their revised Oath.

### **Abortion and communism**

There has also been a strong connection between abortion and communism.

### **Hall v. Lefkowitz**

Hall v. Lefkowitz was a court case on November 4, 1969. during which Roy Lucas, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama Law School, and his self-founded James Madison Constitutional Law Institute, sued to challenge New York's abortion laws. A three-judge court presided which included famous judge Henry Friendly. Friendly wrote a draft opinion in the spring of 1970 declaring government had right to regulate abortion and protect a fetus, contrary to the later Roe v. Wade ruling. However, shortly thereafter the New York legislature amended state abortion law to allow abortion within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, and Hall's case was dismissed as unnecessary.

### **NARAL's fake abortion statistics**

Bernard Nathanson, one of NARAL's co-founders, described how he and the organization fabricated abortion statistics and used slogans to sway the public during the early days of Roe v. Wade.

### **Roe v. Wade**

Prior to 1973, abortion was illegal in most of the US. The US Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision ruled that abortions are lawful under the US Constitution up to the point at which the fetus becomes able to survive outside the womb, and an accompanying decision issued the same day captioned Doe v. Bolton essentially legalized abortion in the unlimited discretion of the abortionist at any time during pregnancy, up to and including birth. Norma McCorvey, also known by the pseudonym "Jane Roe," only sought an abortion for herself. She did not wish for her personal battle to result in a nationwide "legalization" of the procedure. The only reason the case bore her name was because of her pro-abortion feminist lawyer, Sarah Weddington, who sought to have Texas' abortion ban overturned. Even more importantly, Roe became pro-life and sought to have the Supreme Court's decision overturned.

## Abortion and eugenics

Abortion and eugenics are often very strongly related. Abortion is commonly used to kill babies who happen to suffer from Down Syndrome. and other physical and mental issues, to remove such issues from the human race.

### **Margaret Sanger**

Margaret Sanger was an American feminist and eugenics activist who founded what would later become Planned Parenthood. She blamed large families for the ills of society. She campaigned for eugenic controls to enforce what she called "race hygiene" as a member of both the English and the American Eugenics Society.

Many modern ideas of the substandard morals and inferiority of particular races are echoed in Sanger's writings. She wrote in one of her "*What Every Girl Should Know*" commentaries, that the aboriginal Australian is in her opinion "the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development," and that they possess "so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets." She compared these aborigines to "normal man and Woman" who have demonstrated control over their sexual desires. She had a very deep hatred for other races that demonstrated a greater fecundity, such as the Chinese and the aborigines.

Additionally, she wrote about the failure of traditional ethics in sexuality that "have in the past revealed their woeful inability to prevent the sexual and racial chaos into which the world has today drifted."

She associated with racists and gave a talk before a women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan, and wrote about it openly. She is now remembered as a hero by many left-wing and abortion activists.

### **Abortion and Down Syndrome**

It is extremely normal to abort babies with Down Syndrome. In the United Kingdom, 90% of babies with Down Syndrome are aborted. In Denmark, that number is 98%, and nearly 100% in Iceland.

## *Conservative* position on abortion

As Philip E. Devine puts it, the best name for the opposition to abortion that most conservatives and rightists in general share is not "conservative" but should in fact be called "communitarian" after the recent movement with the same name. The reason is that anti-abortion people promove the preservation and nurturing of the chains of the mother–child relationship, between them and other members of the same family, and among all the people who conform society. Although its proponents do not agree on all issues, their position can be summed up in four propositions:

1. Abortion is wrong because it destroys the fetus or unborn child.
2. The unborn child is fully a person from conception (or, in some versions, from very near conception).
3. Nonetheless, abortion is justified under some circumstances, least controversially where pregnancy poses a threat to the pregnant woman's life.
4. These propositions ought to be reflected in law and public policy.

## Statistics on abortion

> *Main page: Abortion statistics*
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