PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Abortion Not Answer To Abuse

There have been some letters concerning our state’s efforts to keep abortion at a pre-born age of 12 weeks, and some who have written that it would be better for the pre-born to be killed in the womb rather than be abused coming into this world.

I am wholly pro-life, but that is a persuasive argument, I too, am concerned about child abuse becoming epidemic, and there are times when I think about the babies who are aborted would, at the minimum, be in the arms of our gentle Jesus, who would love them eternally, rather than face a life of abuse here on this earth.

However, isn’t it just like the pro-choice crowd to give us just two options,like there isn’t any other way than to kill that baby in utero, or let them live and face abuse. Well, tell that to the multitudes of couples wanting to adopt an infant.

There is a third choice and that is adoption. The mother gets to keep her health and not face a risk of breast cancer later in life, the baby gets to live and is put in the arms of a loving couple who would then give the child a nuturing, loving upbringing.

By the way, a 12-weekold fetus does feel pain, evidenced by the YouTube video, “Silent Scream” showing how the infant recoils in pain when pierced by the abortionists tools of death. Something to think about.

ELEANOR LOCK

Bella Vista

Opinion, Pages 5 on 03/25/2013

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