We cannot ignore pain of abortion

In Susan Estrich's recent article about the Tebow Super Bowl ad she tells readers she might "go to the bathroom during the ad or make popcorn."

After reading the article, I think she is out to lunch altogether during the abortion debate.

She states "the real abortion debate is its ability to make women who have made the painful choice of abortion feel bad." That is the real abortion debate? Does she want to discuss pain? How about the pain of the unborn child? Scientific evidence points to the fact the "fetus" does feel pain as early as 13 weeks.

America's desensitized so much, we casually describe late-term abortions (pulling limbs and scissors in the base of the skull). How does this description alone not make us want to scream for justice for the child?

You say that is only about 2 percent of the abortions... listen up AMERICA that is more than 15,000 unborn children a year. If we had 15,000 dogs killed that way every year, half of Hollywood would be naked for PETA.

How about the part of the debate that shows a SIGNIFICANT relationship between abortion and breast cancer?

Susan, you stay in the bathroom while the rest of us debate how we can, at the very least, slow down 1.3 million abortions a year.

You make popcorn while the rest of us look at the evidence the pain of abortion is not based on how a commercial makes you feel. The pain of abortion is not only physical, but emotional and spiritual.

I think both sides need to understand the pain of abortion is felt by two: the child and the woman. The WORLD cannot continue to turn a blind, desensitized eye to the pain of abortion.

Steve O'Connor

Lake Zurich