Society and Abortion

A pregnant woman, about to give birth, is told, "caesarian sections are illegal." A Christian Scientist healer is told he can no longer accept "patients." Sounds somehow unfair and perhaps even an invasion of privacy? So, to some, is the idea of the government making laws concerning the right of a woman to choose to end a pregnancy (for whatever reason). For a political party, the GOP, who runs on the platform of less government is better for Americans, the intrusion of the government in the matter of abortions is difficult to understand, until one realizes that the Republicans who control all three branches of our government are really fostered by the Evangelical right-wing Christians who bring religion into the private lives of all Americans, like it or not. Perhaps not since the vituperative Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and '60s, when ideology turned ugly and caused deaths and injury, has any subject been as vehemently argued as the issue of Abortion. Former Surgeon-General, J. Everett Koop stated: "Nothing like this has separated our society since slavery" (Kerl 1)