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DOES ABORTION SANCTION EVIL? By Joseph Kellard from Capitalism Magazine/Feb.98 This interesting article written by Joseph Kellard is a pro-choice article thatexamines the issue of abortion from a moral perspective. He comments on the opinions ofChristian Conservatives and compares their thinking to Adolph Hitlers feelings onabortion. Kellard points out the irony of anti-abortionists when they say that each life isprecious, when they actually discount the life of the pregnant woman. Conservative syndicated columnist, Cal Thomas is quoted as saying thatabortions legalization is a goose-step toward national socialist concentration camps. He said thatpro-abortionists are creating a culture of death, much like the Nazis did. He goes so faras blaming the violent acts of criminals on people who support abortion. Otherconservative anti-abortionists call the legalization of abortion the American Holocaust. Kellard quoted Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf, as saying I put an end to the themethat a womans body belongs to her...Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortionshall be exterminated with a strong hand. Hitler sentenced Aryan women who hadabortions to hard labor after the first offense, and to death after the second offense. Kellard goes on to say that Conservative Christian anti-abortionists have similar beliefs toAdolph Hitler. He actually feels that in some slipway Hitler was more lenient because someanti-abortionists believe that a woman should be executed after her first abortion, not hersecond Kellard believes that Hitler and anti-abortionists both deny individualistic autonomyand render people submissive. He goes on to criticize the idea that all life is precious,because in fact the womans life is not considered as important as the embryo or fetus. This makes a woman no more important than a farm affright, who is demanded to breedwhenever she gets pregnant. This is the way Nazi youth were trained.