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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 swan that all life isprecious, when they actually discount the life of the large(predicate) charwoman. Conservative syndicated columnist, Cal Thomas is quoted as byword thatabortions legalisation is a goose-step toward Nazi concentration camps. He said thatpro-abortionists are creating a culture of shoemakers last, much like the Nazis did. He goes so out-of-the-way(prenominal)as blaming the violent acts of criminals on people who support abortion. Other button-down anti-abortionists call the legalization of abortion the American Holocaust. Kellard quoted Ado lph Hitler in Mein Kampf, as saying I put an end to the ideathat 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 give similar beliefs toAdolph Hitler. He actually feels that in some ways Hitler was more than lenient because someanti-abortionists believe that a woman should be kill after her first abortion, not hersecond Kellard believes that Hitler and anti-abortionists both deny individual autonomyand render people submissive. He goes on to pink 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 cow, who is demanded to breedwhenever she gets pregnant. This is the way Nazi youth were trained.