ely representative of the anti-abortion movement. The Right to Life movement has become over the past twenty-three years an increasingly powerful force both socially and politically. Since the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973, they have spent enormous amounts of time and money in attempts to reverse that decision. "In 1973 the Supreme Court's decision on Roe vs. Wade snatched the legal status of abortion onto the political dueling ground" After the court's decision the Pro Life forces were left with one option. They had to enter the political arena to stop abortion. To accomplish this they had to transform the present pro-choice system into a pro-life system through the electoral process. "The Pro Life advocates feel that since Judges read abortion right into the Constitution then they would use political means to seek judges who would read abortion back out of the Constitution. The 1976 Presidential election saw the pro-life agenda actively involved in the political system for the first time. Since then supporters have aligned themselves with the religious right and have spent millions of dollars and countless man hours endorsing candidates in attempts to change the legal status of abortion. By far the largest success was the election of Ronald Reagan as President in 1980. Reagan, a strong anti-abortion activist, appointed three conservative Supreme Court Justices and more than half of the Federal Branch during his eight year term. President Reagan also appointed a strong anti-abortionist, C. Everett Koop, as Surgeon General. Koop minces little with regards to words on his opinion of abortion. "In a paper titled "The slide to Auschwitz" Koop compared the right of woman to choose which babies would be born with the decisions made in Nazi Germany about which humans were worthy of life and which were not" With strong support behind them the Pro Life side compared the Roe vs. Wade decision with the 1857 Dred Scott de...
