Since 1973, world wide, abortionists have committed over a billion homicides. Think of it as a Titanic sized luxury liner going to the bottom every thirty minutes of every day since; this has to be the greatest crime against humanity in history. Everyone really knows the life of a human being begins at the beginning: conception. If it doesn't begin there, it doesn't begin anywhere and none of us are human. While there are many who will claim (without thinking about it much) that no one knows when a human life beings, it's closer to the truth to note that just about everybody knows when a human life begins. Nearly every embryology textbook that has a page on the subject will reaffirm that fact. If it is true (and it demonstrably is) that the zygote/embryo/fetus is a human being, then it follows that an abortion, any and every abortion, kills a human being; an innocent human being, if we may speculate. Despite all claims to the contrary, this is not a matter of factual or scientific doubt. It hasn't been for a very long time. In 1859 the AMA published a position paper opposing abortion and calling for its universal criminalization. One can see how confusing this can be. Babies born prematurely look exactly like babies, only smaller. Pennsylvania's abortion law prohibits abortions after 24 weeks, and many times with proper neonatal care a baby can survive at that early stage of development. A 23 week old fetus looks exactly like a 24 week old baby, and with improvements in medical technology will likely have about as good a chance at surviving, assuming it has its mother's permission to live. When in January of 1973, Roe v. Wade took the issue of abortion out of the hands of the voters and placed it irrevocably in the hands of a tiny number of unelected officials, few really understood the truly radical nature of the decision. It was, if anything, more radical than the similar Dred Scott decision of 116 years earlier. Scott had sued under existing law to gain his freedom from slavery. The 1857 court ruled that blacks had no rights that the rest of the human race was obligated to respect, but it set no new precedent, it didn't create slavery or a new class of "sub-citizens". These existed already. It took a bloody war to eliminate them entirely. The 1973 Court on the other hand, did create an entirely new class of human non-persons, and did not authorize mere enslavement, but authorized their killing.