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Death in the Name of Life
No person shall be held to answer for a
capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on
a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury ...
nor shall any person be subject for the same
offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb
... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law ... nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal protection
of the laws.
They fall at the rate of 4,000 a day. Less than one
percent of these abortions are for hardship cases such
as rape, deformity, incest, and threat to the mother's
life. Even in the cases of rape, judges rarely will set a
death penalty for the rapist. The guilty father usually
gets a few years punishment. However, the innocent
baby in the womb may get capital punishment. What
has this baby done wrong at all? Where is the fairness
in all of this by creating a second victim?
Certainly this is not being done in the name of
dealing with overpopulation. A large number of
economists and agronomists tell us that the earth is
very underpopulated and could handle ten times the
present population. Only 15 percent of potential
agricultural land is currently being cultivated; when
there are famines the root cause is usually more to do
with government policies than with farming strategies.
Dr. Robert Sassone, author of
The Population
Handbook,
has offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who
can suggest a ·valid reason why we must limit
population in the next century. He has had no takers.
Certainly there is no population explosion in America
as there is in some third world nations.
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