Tomorrow marks the thirty-seventh anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton – two court decisions that legalized abortion in the United States. Since that time over 52 million children have been aborted in this country. An easy number to read, but a hard one to truly comprehend. What if the tables were turned?

Suppose, in the encounter between doctor and child [in an abortion], the child won half of the time, and killed the doctor in self-defense – something he would have every right to do. Very few doctors would perform abortions. They perform them now only because of their absolute power over a small, fragile, helpless victim.
– Stephen D. Schwartz, The Moral Question of Abortion

I realize that abortion is one of the most divisive and polarizing social issues of our time. People on both sides of the issue have very strong convictions and emotions. But here’s the key issue in the abortion debate. In a compassionate society, no one, male or female, has the right to harm an innocent person.

That’s the key issue in the entire debate. Once all the political posturing and angry rhetoric has faded, we’re still left with a key question: Is the unborn child a living person?