The right to abortion is often justified by the majority of people because unborn children are considered non-viable due to their inability to survive outside the uterus. A section of the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia titled "Abortion" explains the history of abortion in the United States. This encyclopedia explains during which week of pregnancy a fetus is considered viable: “In 1973, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that the right to privacy protected a woman's right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy before the fetus had developed the capacity to do so. for viability outside the uterus – usually interpreted as 24 weeks after conception” (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). When a person is considered unviable by society, they are of no use to the general population or to themselves. It would be better if they were ignored or eliminated to benefit and help society as a whole progress. Nazism is an example of eliminating “unviable” and “inferior” people for the benefit of the majority. An article hosted on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) website, titled "Victims of the Nazi Era: Nazi Racial Ideology," states: "The Holocaust...was the premeditated mass murder of millions of innocent civilians. Driven by a racist ideology that viewed Jews as “parasitic vermin” worthy only of eradication, the Nazis carried out genocide on an unprecedented scale” (USHMM). The Nazis adopted a social attitude