Make abortion more than just illegal

Abortion proponents continue to use the same misinformation they used 50 years ago to justify legalized abortion (Fencepost April 2). Before his death, the founder of NARAL, the late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, himself an abortionist, rejected abortion and became a staunch pro-life supporter.

After his conversion, Dr. Nathanson admitted that the movement to legalize abortion back in the late 1960s and early 1970s made up the statistics still quoted today regarding deaths from illegal abortion so that the numbers sounded large enough to create support for the legalized killing of unborn human children.

Another piece of misinformation relates to support for artificial contraception as a solution to preventing abortion. According to the Guttmacher Institute; founded as an arm of abortion giant Planned Parenthood, 50 percent of women and teens who seek abortions claim to be using artificial birth control. I would suggest that a process that fails 50 percent of the time is ineffective.

All artificial contraception has done is create a society that looks upon women as objects to be used, accepts promiscuity as normal, and ignores the great responsibility associated with the act of creating human life.

Lastly, previous federal administrations did not fund comprehensive sex education. If they had, then the current science of natural family planning would be given its rightful due as the only 100 percent effective means of managing human fertility to either achieve or avoid pregnancy. The fact that it is still widely dismissed and/or unknown speaks to this fact.

Pro-choice policies result in the destruction of innocent human life and the objectification of women. Pro-life activists desire outcomes that recognize the human dignity of women and unborn children. Abortion must be more than illegal. People still do illegal things. Like other immoral acts, abortion must be unthinkable.

Peter Gennuso

Schaumburg