Laws contradictory on abortion

Recent headlines in the Daily Herald told of us about 19-year-old Jessica Cruz, accused of giving birth to a healthy boy in the bathroom of a thrift store and then murdering her baby by strangulation. Not only was the story chilling but this case has highlighted the dysfunction of our judicial system regarding abortion. While this mother is being prosecuted, and rightly so, we as a nation look the other way when partial-birth abortion is considered legal. Apparently this mother killed her child within minutes of delivery. In a partial-birth abortion, the unborn child’s life is terminated when it is already partially out of the birth canal and only minutes or even seconds away from total delivery.

Another example of our contradictory position on abortion is our judicial system’s prosecution of the killing of a pregnant woman as a double homicide. It rightly considers the killing of the unborn child as well as the mother a homicide. However, we see no injustice when a mother of a 3-month unborn child decides to terminate that life through an abortion. Doesn’t make sense does it!

Apparently more Americans see it that way and are starting to question the Pro-Choice position. For the first time, the majority of Americans now consider themselves to be pro-life. Furthermore, the younger generation is even more pro-life then their parents.

Our Founding Fathers, in the very beginning of the Declaration of Independence, stated “we are endowed by our Creator with unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It was no accident that life was identified first because without it the other two are irrelevant.

Richard Kaiser

Elk Grove