5) "Legal abortion will lead to euthanasia"

What we are seeking is women's right to control their own bodies. We find it hard to see how people can associate this with the killing of the aged or infirm. It seems to us that a society which accorded women this fundamental right fully (and nowhere in the world has this yet been done) would be a humane and just society.

Reference is frequently made to Nazi Germany in support of the above antiabortion argument as an example of what can happen when the "sanctity of human life" is violated. But the fact is that Hitler was a staunch guardian of prenatal (german) life and he ruthlessly suppressed abortion, invoking the death penalty for women charged with this "offence".

The Nazi example adds weight to our cause, not to that of opponents of abortion.