Abortion And The Conscience Of The Nation

In 1983, President Reagan wrote an essay for the “Human Life Review” entitled, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation.” This brief writing of his pro-life philosophy was published in book form a year later. It was expanded to approximately to 95 pages with lengthy afterwords by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and British essayist Malcolm Muggeridge. Reagans brief composition is probably one of the better well-argued pro-life essays ever written. It is also significant as it was the first ever by a sitting President. It was President Reagans attempt to awaken a nation to the implications of abortion. In this short book, President Reagan gives an account on how important the issue of abortion is to the “conscience of a nation.” President Reagan’s essay is only 26 pages of the book, but it is well structured. He believed that diminishing the life of the unborn diminishes the value of all human life.

He tackled the pro-abortion “quality of life” argument and compared it to the Dred Scott slavery issue. Reagan likened the pro-abortion argument to slavery and drew parallels between the Roe vs. Wade decision and the Dred Scot decision that divided America over a century earlier. According to Reagan, the quality of life argument is an argument for quality control of the population. Reagan surmises that legalized abortion is a very slippery slope. He says that unborn babies are being killed because they are simply not wanted or come at an inconvenient time. He also states that many are killed because they will be unable to lead a “normal” life as the result of birth defects. Such babies are considered to be of less value and thus denied human rights. He claims this denial of human rights is accomplished by activist judges who frame the interpretation of the US Constitution through the lens of their own pro-abortion beliefs. Reagan believes that the arbitrary evaluation of unborn lives must stop. He states that this philosophy will lead to further the crimes of infanticide and illustrates this by citing the Indiana case of “Baby Doe.” Baby Doe was allowed to starve to death because the child had Down’s syndrome. The essence of Reagans argument is that no nation can survive and prosper when a group of individuals look at a child and declare whether that child has value as a human being. Johnny Kicklighter is a charter contributor to the Metro East Pregnancy Care Center, Fairview Heights, Illinois.

In your Learning Activity this week, you addressed the SWOT Analysis. This type of analysis considers both the internal and external factors affecting the marketing effort. Another type of analysis examines the external environment more specifically, the PEST analysis. Fill in the PEST table(Political,Economic,Social, andTechnology) after doing some research for your chosen company to include some aspects of the external environment which will affect your marketing plan. Then discuss with classmates (you do not have to share your actual completed table) the external environment factors (threats and opportunities) that will impact your company product or service the most and why. • Do research on each of the PEST components. • Fill in the table Threats and Opportunities columns. • Discuss which threats and opportunities will affect your business the most and why. • Address each of the 4 major PEST components in the left hand column in your response. Learning to create advertising, promotional literature, and graphic depictions of ideas is a handy skill to have in many professions.

It can help sell an idea to management in a presentation, promote your product or service to a specific audience, or illustrate an idea or concept to fellow colleagues at work. You will get some practice using your creativity now while implementing what you learned this week regarding a target market. 2. Based on your classmates’ ads and target market, vote for your favorite ad. Explain why, justifying your vote by how the student addressed their ad to the target market. In the beginning of a business, and over time, you may need to borrow money for a short time (revolving credit or short term loans), or a long time (a mortgage, or an equipment loan, for example). • Given your profit and loss projection from last week, do you anticipate needing to borrow money for any reason? Keep in mind the seasonality of your company. You might make a lot of money in the winter, and have essentially no business in the summer — think of how that is true for a ski resort, for example.