Opinion

Complaint against conscience is hard to swallow

Posted May 11, 2019 1:00 am

We note in White House roundup published recently in the Daily Herald that President Donald Trump chose the National Day of Prayer to announce they have finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities with regard to abortions. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in a strongly worded statement said "these bigoted rules are immoral, deeply discriminatory and downright deadly, greenlighting open discrimination in health care against LGBTQ Americans and directly threatening the well-being of millions of Americans."

This position is hard to swallow for me in light of the more than 60 million human lives ended since the Supreme Court's ruling of Roe V. Wade in 1973. The fact that abortion ends a human life should not be camouflaged by pronouncements like "reproductive health, a woman's right to choose or termination of a pregnancy."

William Ross

Mount Prospect

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