We should care about 'potential' humans

A previous writer stated, "Many people believe in the science that a fetus in the first trimester does not have a brain that is developed enough to think or feel pain. It is a potential human being, but not yet what can be considered a 'child.'" Words of wisdom, eh?

Well, if we go back to the mid 1800s and earlier, we can see the same sort of mindset regarding slaves, no matter their age. They were not considered to be fully human, either, else how could anyone consider enslaving them? They were looked at as being no more than the property of the slave owner. They were traded and sold left and right ... and some, I'm thinking, were probably simply killed when their usefulness ran out.

I really thought America had left that mindset behind, on the ash heap of history, as they say. But no, we're applying that very same type of thought to the baby in the womb.

Oh, but in the first trimester, the brain is not yet developed ... there is no pain felt ... it's merely a potential human.

I have to ask those who think that way: where would they be today if their mothers saw them that way and aborted them in the first trimester when they were merely a potential human ... or at any other time, for that matter?

Then-President Reagan once said, "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."

For them, I suppose, it's just a matter of, "Well, I'm glad I was born, but I don't care if anyone else is."

John Babush

Big Rock