Dutch: on Abortion

As CA governor, reluctantly signed Therapeutic Abortion bill

He signed it into law. Only as abortion became an extension of welfare, would he wish he had paid more head to the bill's manipulative language. The very word "Therapeutic" was a medical euphemism, sanitizing essentially bloody procedures. It defined "mental health" as at-risk if a pregnant teen went out and smashed windows. In common with the more liberal laws it was to spawn at state and federal levels, the Act ignored the feelings of fathers.

Reagan was left with a sense of guilt. "If there is a question as to whether there is life or death, the doubt should be resolved in favor of life."

Abortion on demand does emotional harm

The most disturbing evidence of this attitude was Washington's funding of clinics that provided "birth control drugs and devices to underage girls without the knowledge of their parents." Sex was being secularized. "Are we to believe that something so sacred can be looked upon as a purely physical thing with no potential for emotional and psychological harm?" Apparently, yes, for that cynicism extended to the womb:

"Abortion on demand" now takes the lives of up to one and a half million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will someday pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.