<p>At current rates, the <a href="http://www.abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/">Guttmacher Institute estimates</a> that close to one-third of American women will have an abortion in their lifetime. For each of these women, there is also the man who impregnated her and the family or friends who may have pressured her to abort. The end result is a huge cross-section of people with a direct and intimate connection to abortion. Almost all of them have a vested interest in rationalizing its necessity–making an objective analysis of the issue almost impossible to come by. For any of them to finally conclude that abortion is immoral and unjust, they must be willing to first condemn themselves. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=796" title="Permanent Link: The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(6468 words, estimated 25:52  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=796" title="Permanent Link: The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (6468 words, estimated 25:52  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":796,"date":"2013-03-18T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T01:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2013-08-15T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:37:30","slug":"crisis-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At current rates, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abort73.com\/abortion_facts\/us_abortion_statistics\/\">Guttmacher Institute estimates<\/a>\u00a0that close to one-third of American women will have an abortion in their lifetime. For each of these women, there is also the man who impregnated her and the family or friends who may have pressured her to abort. The end result is a huge cross-section of people with a direct and intimate connection to abortion. Almost all of them have a vested interest in rationalizing its necessity\u2013making an objective analysis of the issue almost impossible to come by. For any of them to finally conclude that abortion is immoral and unjust, they must be willing to first condemn themselves. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=796\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(6468 words, estimated 25:52  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=796\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (6468 words, estimated 25:52  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=796\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Case Against Abortion: Crisis of Conscience - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At current rates, the\u00a0Guttmacher Institute estimates\u00a0that close to one-third of American women will have an abortion in their lifetime. 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