Life is Life and Must be Protected

If people are asked to name the darkest days in American history, I think most would say the period of slavery and the civil war. Black Americans were treated literally like property. An infamous Supreme Court decision (Dred Scott) declared that Black Americans could never be considered fully human, could never become citizens.

We are in a comparable situation today. Preborn human beings are considered to be infinitely less valuable than all the rest of us, not fully human. Even though our nation’s founding document declares that all are created equal, the lives of these precious little ones are treated like disposable property.

Science and human biology tell us that a new human life begins at fertilization. Life is a continuum. Why are so many willing to deny the humanity of these children?

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