HB 40 abortion bill distorts rights

All human beings, by virtue of their existence, are endowed with equal human rights. When a law creates civil rights for a select group of individuals that are superior to the human rights of another, it violates the basic legal premise of equal treatment under the law.

Roe v. Wade presumes the rights of a pregnant woman are superior to the rights of her unborn child. It is bad law and should be overturned. Any proposed legislation, such as Illinois HB 40, that is based on the same faulty assumption; that the rights of one individual are superior to the rights of another, is equally bad and should not be codified into law.

HB 40 tries to justify the heinous act of killing innocent unborn human life by removing from Illinois statutes any reference to the scientific fact that a unique human life, entitled to all rights and protection under the law is created at the moment of conception.

Laws exist to control the irresponsible exercise of our civil rights in order to promote a just society. Properly written laws will reflect this. The language and purpose of HB 40, as currently written, violates not only the human rights of the unborn citizens of Illinois, but violates the conscience of every citizen of the state who does not wish to fund, with their tax dollars, the act of abortion, the act that destroys an innocent human life.

The proposed legislation is bad law and should be rejected as such.

Peter Gennuso

Schaumburg