Let it be known to the reader that the practice of abortion was once a common and accepted practice, even in the eyes of the Catholic Church. Abortion, a topic once taboo in American culture, was placed in the figurative blind spots of the masses and Roe v Wade brought the matter out of the darkness and into the light. By the time the subject surfaced it had become so politicized that many people had been diverted from the real issue at hand.

Long before any of those involved in the Roe case, back in the nineteenth-century, abortion was just another everyday issue, but this was coming to an end. During that period abortion was found to be an acceptable practice according to Catholic theology that was hundreds of years old. In 1100 A.D., Ivo of Chartres, a church scholar, held that abortion of an unformed embryo was...