Abortion Makes Man Into Meat

We have paid some high prices for the technological conquest of nature, but none perhaps so high as the intellectual and spiritual costs of seeing nature as mere material for our manipulation, exploitation and transformation.  With the powers for biological engineering now gathering, there will be splendid new opportunities for a similar degradation in our view of man.  Indeed, we are already witnessing the erosion of our idea of man as something splendid or divine, as a creature with freedom and dignity.  And clearly, if we come to see ourselves as meat, then meat we shall become.

Dr. Leon R. Kass, “Making Babies—The New Biology and the ‘Old’ Morality,” The Public Interest (Winter, 1972, p.53), as cited by John Powell, S.J.,  Abortion: the Silent Holocaust, p.40