<p>By <em>Ronald Reagan</em></p>
<p><em></em>Spring, 1983</p>
<p>THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the Supreme Court decision in <i>Roe</i> v.<i> Wade</i> is a good time for us to pause and reflect. Our nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people nor enacted by our legislators—not a single state had such unrestricted abortion before the Supreme Court decreed it to be national policy in 1973. But the consequences of this judicial decision are now obvious: since 1973, more than 15 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions. That is over ten times the number of Americans lost in all our nation&#8217;s wars. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=788" title="Permanent Link: Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(3586 words, estimated 14:21  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=788" title="Permanent Link: Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (3586 words, estimated 14:21  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":788,"date":"2013-03-18T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-08-15T21:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T01:28:48","slug":"abortion-and-the-conscience-of-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <em>Ronald Reagan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Spring, 1983<\/p>\n<p>THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the Supreme Court decision in\u00a0<i>Roe<\/i>\u00a0v.<i>\u00a0Wade<\/i>\u00a0is a good time for us to pause and reflect. Our nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people nor enacted by our legislators\u2014not a single state had such unrestricted abortion before the Supreme Court decreed it to be national policy in 1973. But the consequences of this judicial decision are now obvious: since 1973, more than 15 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions. 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