The value of human life

Published July 28, 2015 4:01am ET



In 1983, President Ronald Reagan penned an essay that became a book entitled, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation. “The real question today is not when human life begins, but, ‘What is the value of human life?'” he wrote. “The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother’s body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law — the same right we have.”

We as a society must ask ourselves, as President Reagan did, “What is the value of human life?” We know that for those in the abortion industry, and especially the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, innocent human life has no value — unless the body parts are made available piece by piece.

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