Similarities seen in Holocaust, abortion

Thank you to the Herald for the stories of Nazi horrors in Auschwitz and Treblinka. As a 10-year-old in 1944, learning about such horror was my reality. It had a lasting affect on me. I asked how people could stay silent and allow this to happen. I remember saying I would not have.

Twenty-nine years later, another holocaust began that in numbers alone has dwarfed any of the past. Roe v. Wade, and Doe v. Bolton somehow found in our Constitution a right to abortion. Our children could be murdered at any time within the first nine months of their lives. Thirty-eight years later, the staggering number, 50 million, were lost to the abortionist's knife.

Many similarities exist between the earlier Holocaust and today's. In Auschwitz the choice as to who lived or died was made by others. In abortion it is the same.

The Holocaust first denied the Jews their citizenship, then their very humanity. Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton do the same to the innocent child. Experimentation on inmates within the camps were performed with the rationale that “they are going to die anyway.” In abortion, baby parts have been utilized to make someone else's life better at the expense of the unborn child.

Finally, survivor Fritzie Fritzshall mentioned “doctors” who took the Hippocratic oath “to do nothing to harm their patients,” yet eagerly participated in their evil actions for the Third Reich. The abortionist does it for financial gain.

Many people across the world stayed silent regarding the evil of the Holocaust. Sadly, this silence in America allows the evil of abortion to continue. I will continue to honor the promise I made as a 10-year-old 66 years ago not to stay silent in the face of evil. I thank God for the opportunity to do same.

Jim Finnegan

Barrington