n Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was
permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no
longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along
with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United
Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World Medical
Association meeting in Geneve at the same time, stated that the utmost
respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception. This
declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo
in 1970. Should we go backwards in our concern for the life of an individual
human being? The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful
thinking of those advocating repeal of......
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