Abortion

            In the past two hundred years, over one million Americans have died for their country. Monuments have been built and speeches have been delivered, honoring these American heroes. America is now engaged in a war where there are no heroes, no monuments or accolades, only victims. Our society has declared war on its most helpless members, our unborn children. Since that war declared on January 22, 1973, there have been over 35 million deaths. Abortion is one of the most controversial and important subjects of this generation. Since 1975 there have been well over one million abortions a year, with a grand total as of 1996 of 35,273,792. One statistic even stated that one in four of our generation is not living because they were killed before they were born. There are even voting blocks that vote purely according to the abortion issue. Why are we allowing this? Abortion has an affect on almost all people. Most people know someone who has had an abortion. The current statistic is one out of every six women have had abortions. Just how are abortions done? Well abortions are legal in this country until the day of birth! Many people do not know this. If you tell them, they refuse to believe it. Yet, the fact remains that a woman can legally abort a baby at any time during her pregnancy. The only thing that changes is the method and the cost. Since abortion was legalized in 1973, as I stated before, approximately 1,500,000 babies have been aborted each year. Many times, they were not told about the procedure or the risks involved. They were most likely not informed about the development of the unborn baby inside of them. Abortion is called a "choice". If this is true, women should know what they are choosing.
             As abortion is a huge issue another issue that goes along side it is Planned Parenthood. The following are directly taken from a large featured article written by Margaret Sanger in the American Weekly Magazine in 1934.