If we really cared about life, we'd help the living

This is in response to recent letters about abortion.

I just love our holier than thou right to lifers. Pampered people who have lived privileged lives. They know so much about bitter poverty, domestic violence, sexual abuse, incest, and domination.

High and mighty, they sit on their pristine white thrones and have the gall to deny any woman the right to her own body. Whether it is birth control or, when needed, abortion, it is the woman's decision to make. Not yours, not the priests' not the lawmakers'. It is hers. And, it is nobody else's business.

A fertilized ovum is not a human being. A teaspoon of protoplasm is not a child.

If life is so sacred, why is there no respect for the woman's life and heath? Why are there so many children, many with special needs, waiting for a home? Why are there so many wounded, blind, paralyzed, and afflicted veterans needing care? Why are the mentally challenged in our communities without homes and help?

I kid you not. If men could have babies, abortion would be a sacrament.

Berna K. Gingras

Schaumburg