Abortion

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ct the selfish desire of parents and not treat the newborn defective with a necessary lifesaving measure is becoming increasingly more common. (2) But for the most part the only conclusion available to us is that those pressing for repeal of the abortion laws believe that there are different sorts of human beings and that by some arbitrary standard, they can place different values on the lives of there human beings. Of course, different human beings
have different values to each of us as individuals: my mother means more to me than she does to you. But the rights to life of all human beings are undeniable. I do not think this is negotiable. It is easy to be concerned with the welfare of those we know and love, while regarding everybody else as less important and somehow, less real. Most people would rather have heard of the death of thousands in the Honduras flooding disaster than of a serious accident involving a close friends or favorite relatives. That is why some are less disturbed by the slaughter of thousands of unborn children than b...