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I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . the fact that they could not resolve the issue of when life begins was a finding in and of itself. if we don't know, then shouldn't we morally opt on the side that it is life? if you came upon an immobile body and you yourself could not determine whether it was dead or alive, i think that you would decide to consider it alive until somebody could prove it was dead. you wouldn't get a shovel and start covering it up. and i think we should do the same thing with regard to abortion.

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I Have Been One Who Believes That

Ronald Reagan

I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . the fact that they could not resolve the issue of when life begins was a finding in and of itself. if we don't know, then shouldn't we morally opt on the side that it is life? if you came upon an immobile body and you yourself could not determine whether it was dead or alive, i think that you would decide to consider it alive until somebody could prove it was dead. you wouldn't get a shovel and start covering it up. and i think we should do the same thing with regard to abortion.

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