Topic > Unborn Children: The Dehumanization of Children

The right to abortion is often justified by the majority of people because unborn children are considered non-viable due to their inability to survive outside the womb. A section of Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia titled “Abortion” explains the history of abortion in the United States. This encyclopedia explains during which week of pregnancy a fetus is considered viable: “In 1973 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that the right to privacy protects a woman's right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy before the fetus has developed the capacity for viability outside the uterus, usually understood to be 24 weeks after conception" (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). When someone is considered non-viable by society, they are not useful to the general population or to themselves. It would be better if they were ignored or eliminated for the benefit and to help society as a whole progress. Nazism is an example of how to eliminate “non-viable” and “inferior” people for the benefit of the majority. An article hosted on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) website titled “Victims of the Nazi Era: Nazi Racial Ideology” states: “The Holocaust… was the premeditated mass murder of millions of civilians innocent. Driven by a racist ideology that viewed Jews as “parasitic parasites” worthy only of eradication, the Nazis carried out genocide on an unprecedented scale” (USHMM). The Nazis took a social