In "Horton Hears a Who!" » by Dr. Seuss Horton the elephant exclaims: “A person is a person, no matter how small. » Horton's statement is particularly valid in the context of abortion. I would agree with Horton that a person is indeed a person, regardless of their size. A person is a person regardless of size, age, mental abilities, race, nationality, gender, etc. And all people are created in the image of God: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every thing that creepeth upon the earth. God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them12:6-7; Matthew 6:26, 22:39; 1 John. 4:11). However, abortion is very popular in the United States. In fact, according to the CDC, in New York (in 2008) there were 732 abortions per 1,000 live births. In the same year, nationwide, 825,564 abortions were reported and 3,451,951 live births (Pazol). This represents a ratio of approximately 2 abortions for every 5 live births. With statistics like these, it can be difficult for some to understand what the “problem” is. Some see an action as approved and sanctioned by a government, popular and presented as a moral option; and they end up not thinking much about the moral value of such an action. Between the truth of God's word, the truth of observation, and the truth of an objective moral standard, abortion is indeed a "big deal." We will examine what abortion supporters usually have to say to (in their words) “narrow-minded” and “misogynistic” opponents of surgery. Thus, it is often expressed in modern culture that to be anti-abortion is to be anti-abortion. -women. However, half of aborted fetuses are women; so it seems that abortion is not really favorable to women. This defense then only applies to adult women seeking an abortion, not to women in the womb who would later become women if not aborted (Anderson 12). Likewise, our legal system does not recognize the absolute right to do whatever you want with your own body (and it never has). Individuals are not allowed to drive drunk (or even without a license), walk around naked, urinate in public, use dangerous drugs, etc. (Anderson 13). And finally, when a woman is pregnant, her body is no longer just "her own body", in fact, a fetus in the womb controls its mother's body in many ways through various hormonal signals (Anderson 13) . Additionally, if the human body did not create a placental barrier for a developing embryo, said embryo would be rejected as foreign tissue (Anderson