To the Editor:
RE: Letter to the editor from Norma Butterfield
Thank you, Norma Butterfield, for initiating a discussion about a very important and timely topic: elective abortion, the voluntary termination of a healthy pregnancy in a healthy woman.
This procedure is a medical action. It is legal under some circumstances in some political jurisdictions. Hence it is discussed by both science and law.
Norma, you say that it is a religious topic, and this misunderstanding is not uncommon because it has been actively promulgated by the pro-abortion community. The misunderstanding serves only to confuse the issue. Many of those objecting to elective abortions are doing so because of the inherent dignity of each and every human being, born and pre-born. We affirm that dignity. The root of the legal issue underlying elective abortion, however, is scientific. Science affirms that a human being’s life starts at conception, so the pro-life community is simply asking all of us to stand up for every person by supporting his/her right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That’s the legal promise in our country. If science is acknowledged, then the child in the mother’s womb has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is not possible under the abortionist’s knife.
Patrick D. and Mary Ann Kent
Utica
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