SANCTITY OF LIFE

Nat Hentoff writing in the Jewish World Review writes on the simplicity of the evil of abortion as well as the door Roe v Wade opened for other value of life controversies.

As time goes on, my deepening concern with the consequences of abortion is that its validation by the Supreme Court, as a constitutional practice, helps support the convictions of those who, in other controversies — euthanasia, assisted suicide and the "futility doctrine" by certain hospital ethics committees — believe that there are lives not worth continuing.

Read the rest of the article here.

(HT: World Magazine Blog)