Abortion and Holocaust

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines "holocaust" as "destruction or slaughter on a mass scale". According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (a pro-abortion agency), 115,000 abortions occur every day worldwide. The deliberate killing of over 100,000 innocent children everyday certainly sounds like "slaughter on a mass scale."

The language of abortion and that of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany bear uncomfortable similarities. Consider these examples:

"Only persons of 'German or related blood' can be citizens; this does not include Jews."-Reich Citizenship Law, 1935
"The word 'person', as used in the fourteenth Amendment (of the USA Constitution), does not include the unborn."-USA Supreme Court, 1973 ruling which legalized abortion nationwide

"The authority of physicians is enlarged to include the responsibility for according a 'mercy death [to] incurables.'"-Hitler's Euthanasia order, 1939
"The abortion decision in all its aspects is inherently and primarily a medical decision and basic responsibility for it must rest with the physician."-USA Supreme Court, 1973 ruling

"The Jewish-Bolshevik Commisars personify a repulsive yet characteristic subhumanity."-Dr. August Hirt, Nazi chancellor of Reich University in Stasbourg during World War II. In 1943 Hirt ordered the execution of 115 prisoners and planned to use their bodies in an anthropological display.
"For the first four and one-half months the fetus is subhuman and relatively close to a piece of tissue." Amitai Etzioni, 1976

The world has had enough holocausts. May Swaziland refuse to slaughter its own innocents, and instead give mothers and children the support they need to prosper. No to abortion; yes to life.

Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
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