an illegal act called homicide, abortion is murder, and murder is, of course, illegal. The pro-abortion community has for years clouded the issue of when life begins, but what the scientific community says is the rule by which everyone has to go by on issues like this one. The reason is that science is the most objective way to get to the truth when issues at hand are so emotional as to obscure the judgment of those those searching for the truth. People who do not know the stand of the scientific community often fall prey to the tactics of the abortion advocates and end up believing that abortion is not murder. The first issue- clouding act of the pro-abortion group was in 1973 just before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. In 1973 the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) changed the definition of conception. "In the past, conception had been used as the equivalent of, and interchangeably with, fertilization. ACOG would make it equivalent to implantation, a process which goes on for days." (Scientists for Life 29) Many other acts of abortion advocates that have obscured the subject were not done by pro-abortion groups, but people in positions of authority who believe in abortion-on-demand. The ancient Greek Hippocratic Oath for thousands of years contained the line "I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy" this sentence has now been dropped from most medical school commencement ceremonies. for 125 years, the American Medical Association (AMA) took a firm anti-abortion position before the pro-abortion movement, declaring that abortion is the "unwarranted destruction of human life" (Knights of Columbus 2) the AMA denounced doctors who would perform abortions as "false to their professions, false to honor, false to humanity, false to God." (Knights of Columbus 2) But, in 1989, the AMA called abortion a "fundamental right" that was to be found "free of state interference" in the absence of compelling just...
