I am surprised, though I shouldn't be. Business interests have been masquerading as moral issues for a long time, most recently with the "WMD" game. Thanks for posting this.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote: > > "Abortion itself only became a serious criminal offense in the period between > 1860 and 1880. And the criminalization of abortion did not result from moral > outrage. The roots of the new law came from the newly established physicians' > trade organization, the American Medical Association. Doctors decided that > abortion practitioners were unwanted competition and went about eliminating > that competition. The Catholic Church, which had long accepted terminating > pregnancies before quickening, joined the doctors in condemning the practice." > > http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roe-v-wade >
