Abortion tragedy

I wrote the letter to the editor in the Herald-Times that prompted Indira Dammu’s column last week (“Point of no return,” Jan. 16.) Yes, I did mention the “abortion industry” in my letter, a machine that is responsible for the deaths of 1.2 million human beings every year. The average of over 3,200 abortions every day is a human-rights tragedy that dwarfs even the carnage of September 11, 2001. Planned Parenthood and all of its affiliates combine for a huge difference between income and expenses, which most people refer to as “profit.” This has been well-documented by Planned Parenthood’s own annual financial reports. Pointing out the number of abortions annually, the average number of abortions per day, or Planned Parenthood’s profit margins is not in and of itself “radical.” Facts are not ideological. Do we need to “assume” that abortion is murder? It is a biological fact that human life begins at fertilization, when a new entity is created that then grows and develops throughout the stages of life. “Cute” comparisons to an acorn and a tree fail to refute basic biology. In the fall of 2001, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform came to campus with the Genocide Awareness Project. Huge photographs of aborted babies are difficult to ignore or deny. The photographs simply show the results of abortion: a shredded and lifeless body butchered by the abortionist’s instruments. See the pictures for yourself at www.CBRinfo.org. The issue is not forcing women to give up their bodies. The issue is making it illegal to kill a human being in the early stages of development. The use of rape and incest as an argument for “reproductive choice” fails when one realizes that these “hard cases” account for a small percentage of all abortions. If abortion is to be opposed based on the human rights of the unborn, should an unborn baby be executed for the crimes of his or her father?\nBanning abortion will be hard, but when you have over 3,200 lives snuffed out every day, is there any other option than criminalizing that killing? Is doing the right thing ever easy?