by T. W. Fuller

Created on: April 17, 2008

Nobody dismisses the fact that no other single issue of our time has been the subject of so much bitterness, vitriol, hatred, hostility, outrage, and controversy as abortion. Since the landmark decision "Roe v. Wade" in 1973, which decriminalized abortion, America has found itself engulfed in a singular and unique war, (both moral and legal), and perhaps neither seen or equaled since the time of slavery. And just as slavery had done in generations past, abortion has, with today's generations, also pitted neighbor against neighbor, spouse against spouse, and has been instrumental in putting a detrimental, and often times permanent, rift between family members.

Even though the law, as it is now stated, affirms a woman's right to obtain an abortion at any time during pregnancy, and for any reason (although at the writing of this article a law banning partial birth abortion has been enacted by congress, and since upheld by the Supreme Court), there is a fundamental precept why this decision is immoral, why we need to move toward a total ban on all abortion (with the exception of a woman's life), why the pro-life side is the right side, why women need not fear a ban on abortion is in any way anti-woman, and how we can ultimately win this war on moral grounds, with logic and facts, as the other side continues to fight its battle on legal grounds, using misguided passion and activist judges.

Because the law allows for abortion, and this is true even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, ultimately what this debate comes down to is credibility. The pro-life side has always been insistent that abortion is the taking of human life, regardless of the trimester; and only recently has modern science proven conclusively the long held belief that life begins at conception, rather than the preconceived notion of "quickening", or when the child first stirs in the womb. The pro-abortion side remains in denial of this fact, for obvious reasons. And while abortion is murder, technically and morally, it is not murder in a legal sense. So long as the courts remain heavily influenced by activist judges, the schools and universities steadfastly guided by activist educators, and the mainstream media all but controlled by activist journalists and reporters, (the majority of whom emphatically support abortion rights) it becomes the power of credibility, backed up with the facts concerning abortion, that is the greatest, most potent, asset we have at our disposal in dispelling the myths surrounding

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