Benjamin J. Stein

Benjamin J. Stein is an economist, writer, and television actor. In the following viewpoint, he argues that abortion is murder—the taking of a human life. Abortion supporters willfully ignore this unpleasant aspect of abortion. The millions of abortions that have occurred in America since Roe v. Wade in 1973 constitute a national tragedy, he concludes.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How many abortions have taken place in America since 1973, according to Stein?
2. Why do abortion supporters oppose the showing of television advertisements depicting abortion, according to the author?
3. Why does the author refuse to consider the current era to be “A Golden Age” for America"

Here I am cleaning up my son’s room watching a talk show and they are talking about our time—to the effect that we are now living...