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Title: Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (New edition/issue) by Ronald Reagan, Wanda Franz, William P. Clark, Brian P. Johnston ISBN: 0-9641125-3-1 Publisher: New Regency Pub Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Reagan's heart
Comment: Ronald Reagan clearly understood the intrinsic worth of every life. This is what animated his political philosophy, it is clealy the cornerstone in the concept that government derives its power from the individual people it purports to speak for, and as both Clark and Johnston point out, it is precisely this regard for individual human lives that distinguishes a free republic from the evil empire of communism which saw human lives as mere grist for the mill of history and tools of the state.
Thank God for Ronald Reagan!
Rating: 3
Summary: Worth the Read
Comment: Only 94 pages, the least part of which is Reagan's essay. In point of fact, he is quite in error when he states that Roe vs. Wade allows abortion at any time during pregnancy. But it is C. Everett Koop's essay, "The Slide to Auschwitz", the longest in the book, and, especially Malcolm Muggeridge's "The Humane Holocaust", that are morally and intellectually convincing. The first, written in 1977, the latter in 1980, still engage today. Sanctity of life versus quality of life.
Rating: 5
Summary: A powerful argument for the sanctity of all human life
Comment: Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation is an historically important document and one of the most passionate and well-argued pro-life essays ever written. The publication of such an essay by a President while in office (and in his first term, no less) was unheard of, but the knowledge that some 15 million unborn children had been aborted in the first ten years after abortion was legalized in this country compelled Ronald Reagan to do something to put an end to a practice doing irreparable harm to both families and the entire nation. The essay is a short but brilliant condemnation of abortion. The issue affects all of us, Reagan insists, because the diminishment of the life of the unborn diminishes the value of all human life. He exposes the ugly underside of the pro-abortion "quality of life" argument, likening it to slavery, drawing parallels between the Roe vs. Wade decision and the Dred Scot decision that divided Americans over a century earlier. The "quality of life" argument is an argument for quality control of the population, according to Reagan. It says that some human lives are worthless and thus deserving of death; as such, it is a dark echo of the Holocaust which has now inconceivably been endowed with the quality of "mercy." Legalized abortion, Reagan makes clear, put America at the top of a very slippery slope. Not only are unborn babies being killed because they are not wanted, many are killed because of defects - someone decides that such a child would be a burden on the parents and family or the child will not be able to live a "normal" life. Such babies are dubbed useless and without value by the abortionist proponents and are thus denied the human rights our Founding Fathers promised every American. Just as slaves were denied the value of their human lives in America's past, "useless" unborn babies are now being denied that same value of human life.
Such arbitrary evaluation of unborn lives must stop, Reagan says. Such thinking leads naturally to further crimes such as infanticide. Such a case the previous year served to compel Reagan to write this very essay. The courts of Indiana had allowed "Baby Doe" to starve to death after his birth because the child had Down's Syndrome. In essence, retardation had been equated to a crime, one which deserved the death penalty. No nation can survive and prosper when a group of individuals can look at a child and declare whether that child has any value as a human being. The core of Reagan's forceful argument is to be found here: America has two choices. It can be a nation wherein some human lives are declared to be of no value, or it can be a nation who protects and defends the sanctity of all life. We cannot survive as a free nation, Reagan declares, "when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide." That is the core of Reagan's eloquent and insightful essay.
I cannot speak to the accompanying articles in the new addition of this book. ... Reagan's essay, though, is one of the most powerful and logical anti-abortion arguments in the library of pro-life advocates. More timely than ever, this is an essay that all Americans should read and ponder over.
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Title: God and Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life by Paul Kengor ISBN: 0060571411 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Hand Of Providence : The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan ISBN: 0785260536 Publisher: WND Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Ronald Reagan: In God I trust by Ronald Reagan ISBN: 0842357041 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 1984 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Reagan: A Life in Letters by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson, George P. Shultz ISBN: 074321966X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments by Randy Alcorn ISBN: 1576737519 Publisher: Multnomah Pub. Date: 09 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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