cision. The Scott decision stated that Blacks were not humans but were the sole property of their owners. The owners could buy, sell, trade, or even kill their slaves if they so desired. The Pro Life forces exclaimed that the Roe vs. Wade decision placed the fetus in the same situation as the slaves in that the pregnant woman had the same power over these unborn fetuses as the slave owners had over their slaves. In a more recent example, Pope John Paul in his "Evangelium Vitae" which explains the official stand of the Roman Catholic Church on issues such as euthanasia, birth control, and most specifically abortion, "Urges people not to support laws which permit abortion and birth control because they defy Gods law." One would tend to believe that with the apparent support of high level right wing politicians and religious leaders in their pockets, the anti-abortion forces would feel confident that their efforts to reverse Roe vs. Wade would be successful. However, this is not the case. Abortions are still quite legal and are being performed every day throughout the country. Even with all the support they have received over the past fifteen years Roe vs. Wade is no closer to being reversed than it was twenty five years ago. Now, with a far more liberal President and Court system, the prospects of the decision being reversed any time soon is practically nil. Perhaps this is part of the reason that a marked increase in attacks on abortion clinics and recent murders of several Doctors and even staff members of clinics around the country has occurred. Just this year an anti-abortion activist named John Salvi was convicted of murdering clinic staff members at an abortion facility in Boston, Massachusetts. It is not simply recently that anti-abortion violence has occurred. "Violence against abortion clinics began almost as soon as Roe vs. Wade was handed down. In the time since, more than forty clinics have been fire bombed. It i...
