LifeNews.com
2012-07-05
7/5/12 — Americans celebrated the 236th birthday of the United States on Independence Day yesterday. As Americans hearken back to a time of freedom and independence, recalling some of the glory days of the Old Republic, Texas Alliance for Life points out an interesting note.
Referencing Abortion Questions And Answers: Love Them Both, a pro-life book written by Dr. Jack Willke, the pro-life groups points out an interesting item about the status of legalized abortion at the time of the founding of the nation. In the book, Willke, a physician, quotes J. Dellapenna in the article “The History of Abortion:
Technology, Morality, and Law” written in 1979 in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review:
At the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 236 years ago on July 4, 1776, abortion was banned in all of the 13 American colonies.