Author(s)  : Congressman Ron Paul Publisher  : Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Date        : 1983 Pages       : 46 Format     : PDF ISBN        : 0-912453-02-8

Book Introduction
Abortion is the most fundamental issue involving natural rights and individual liberty. Many people wish the issue would simply disappear, but without clear and correct answers to the questions involved, the controversy will continue, and it will be impossible to defend liberty.

It’s no coincidence that today’s argument over abortion comes at a time when freedom in general is threatened in the United States, as well as in other Western countries. Nor was it accidental that genocide, abortion, and euthanasia were all practiced under Hitler, and that all three characterize totalitarian states. Even today, Communist governments vary their positions on abortion strictly on economic calculations of whether more or fewer slaves are needed.