This past week there was a bill that while passing the US House of Representatives was defeated in the US Senate. See that following article from Desiring God which illustrates why heading down this road is particularly dangerous.

The full text of the bills can be found via the following link.

Regardless of stances on the subject of abortion it remains that when any individual or group is defined in a way that attempts to make them less than human, less than “made in the image of God” based upon their appearance, capabilities or even actions we have begun to rationalize behavior that we know is wrong.