Human rights
To the editor:
The left seems to be hysterical in their desire to make abortion a human right in America once again. Their threats and attacks are interesting because they only consider a fetus to be a human once they are born. They never mention that fetuses live outside the womb after 6 months of gestation. Our system of laws must define the fetus as a human since the law considers an unborn fetus killed violently by another person a murder.
Pro abortionists cite the many children who are homeless, unplanned, unwanted, and have parents who don’t love them as a reason to make abortion the law of the land. Those statistics are interesting since they are from a time when we have legal abortion. What would it take to eliminate those numbers? Make abortion mandatory as in China?
Of course the fetus is a body in itself living off the mother until birth. It is not a diaphragm or prophylactic to be used when birth control is skipped. Pro-abortionists say a woman can do anything they want with their body disregarding that the body growing in them is a separate body. Aborting that other body might be destroying a genius, an incredible teacher, a special human being?
Then to strengthen their argument they say that conservatives want to eliminate birth control. That only proves that the left will say anything to argue their point. I don’t know of a single parent who wishes they had 10 kids.
From a technical standpoint the constitution does not deal with abortion. The 1973 Supreme Court decided to play Congress and make this ruling without constitutional guidance just as they did in the Dred Scott ruling in 1857 making all states slave states. It took the Civil War four years later to change that. It took Roe v. Wade nearly 50 years for the 1973 ruling to be corrected.
But can you get an abortion in America today? You sure can. Many states have or will have abortion made legal in that state. But thanks to Democracy not all of us have to live under that law where the fetus, like the slave in 1857, has no rights. We can live in a state where the unborn is considered a future human making the world better. We are Americans too and deserve that right.
John Benedict
Cape Coral