"There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of [a] higher
order than the right to life,...that was the premise of slavery. You
could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation
because that was private and therefore outside your right to be
concerned.
What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral
fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby
without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a
society will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually? It
is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and
our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is
the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that
question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth."
-Jesse Jackson, 1977
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