Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton (1973): The Court ruled that the fetus was not a "person" with constitutional rights and that a right to privacy inherent in the 14th Amendment's due process guarantee of personal liberty protected a woman's decision whether or not to bear a child. In 1973, people began to take a radical view of a baby in the womb of its mother. Instead of a baby, people suddenly began to refer to it as a "fetus." That year the Court maintained that this infant child inside its mother's womb no longer had the same protected rights under the U.S. Constitution as you or I, and quite suddenly a very lucrative industry was borne. Doctors and others were suddenly amidst a gold mine and most of them were not about to walk away. Well, some did turn it down--those who took their oath as a physician seriously. The others who entered the abortion (baby killing) business have profited handsomely--never mind that the entire thing was, and still is, based on faulty thinking. "Faulty thinking?" Yes, I said faulty thinking... Is It A Real, Live Baby, Or Is It Merely A Fetus? Let me make a confession here. I admit that I was always a strange boy. At the age of 12 or 13 I began to read psychology books (besides SciFi :-). At the age of 14 I began to use hypnosis, both hetro and auto. At the age of 16, using auto hypnosis, this author was able to lose 65 pounds in just a month and a half. At the age of 15, my dentist, Dr. George Hill, stopped using anesthesia to fill and pull my teeth. Instead, I used auto hypnosis. Using auto hypnosis, at the age of 17, this author was also able to jump start the insulin-making process. This took place in 1967, after a medical doctor stated that the large sores on my body (that would not heal) and the fingernails that had pulled out of the ends of my fingers (which had turned to jelly-like stuff) were probably all signs of sugar diabetes. Well, before the glucose tolerance test was taken two weeks later, my sores were fully healed and were scared over and the jelly-like condition at my fingertips was totally gone. Some of the missing fingernails had even already started to grow back. I accomplished this with auto hypnosis (at 16 I had learned how to control my pulse rate and blood pressure as well). I also made use of hetro hypnosis on others, including what was then considered experimental hypnosis using pressure points behind the ear(s) to reduce resistance in difficult subjects. Well, using standard hetro hypnosis, this author was able to regress an excellent somnambulistic subject to the point of the womb. Using secondary age regression, using his birthday as the focal point, I brought him back to the point at which he was allegedly in his mother's womb. He then told me of the impressions he had during his 9 or so month's stay. I can still recall him telling me that he knew his mother and father before he emerged into the bright lights of the delivery room. When I asked him how he could possibly know them, he said he knew them by the tone/sound of their voices. When I quized him about this, he assured me that sound travels very well through the water inside the womb (I had never thought of that). He shared that he knew when his mother was upset and when his father was angry. (Note that I stopped using hypnosis on others at the age of 21 because I was not licensed; whilst after some conversation on a joint flight to the West coast, the president of the North American Hypnotist's Association invited me to work with their organization to attain it.) Okay, some might suggest that it was in the last few weeks that this young man, as a baby fetus, gained enough consciousness to discern the identities of his mother and father. However, how can we be sure at what point that consciousness begins? Can we be sure enough to commit murder by way of legalized abortion? If we're wrong, who will pay the eternal bill? Are you prepared to do that if you have it wrong? In closing, may I say that you can be assured that just because a person takes the word of the Court--that human life does not begin in the womb, the Most High Creator of all will likely not excuse anyone of this most grievous error. Of course, those who have done so do have one recourse, repentance of their sin. Ask the Lord to forgive you. He is faithful, gracious, and forgiving--but He will someday unleash His wrath on those who failed to side with Him and not the devil who's domain is here on earth. Final Note: There Are Alternatives Al Colombo