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"If parents are forced to raise children they don't want, it will simply lead to more and more child abuse." This is yet another argument that many abortion advocates make in an attempt to justify the legitimacy of elective abortion. The problem? This argument assumes that unborn embryos and fetuses aren't human beings. This, however is exactly the point they must prove before this argument can even gain a hearing. If embryos and fetuses are, in fact, human beings then killing them is an act of child abuse that far exceeds any mistreatment they might experience outside the womb. Killing a child as a means of sparing that child from potential suffering down the road is horrible social policy.

Beyond this simple reality, there is much more to say about the connection between abortion and child abuse. It is a connection which only makes the case against abortion stronger, not weaker.

Since abortion was federally legalized in 1973, the frequency of child abuse in America has gone up dramatically. From 1973 to 1982, the number of annual child abuse cases rose from 167,000 to 929,000, an increase of more than 500 percent! By 1991, the number of annual cases stood at 2.5 million, and it exceeded three million by 1997.

It doesn't take much imagination to see how abortion on demand is changing the way society looks at children. If children are expendable before birth, it is only logical that they begin to be seen as expendable after birth. Some bio-ethicists even suggest that parents be given a few weeks after their baby is born to decide if they want to keep or "abort" their newborn child. When mothers are given the legal right to dispose of their babies before birth, that very well could influence the way they see their children after birth. Since unborn children in America today have no rights to life beyond the affections of their mother, what happens to these children after birth, when the affections of their mother suddenly turns on them? Of the 5,000 born children who are killed annually in this nation, ninety-five percent are killed at the hands of one or both of their own parents.