Abe Lincoln, Slavery, and Abortion

Physicians should understand that the position against abortion has great argumentative force behind it. It is really just the standard position against unjustified homicide in general applied to those in the womb. With that in mind, physicians should speak the truth in love. We do it with unjustified homicide. There is no reason not to do it in this case as well. In fact, just as Abe Lincoln once said: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,' we can rightly say: 'If prenatal homicide-- abortion-- is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' No amount of privacy changes this. Nothing in the physician-patient relationship changes this. Unjustified homicide is unjustified homicide, regardless of age.