A West Chicago letter to the editor: In passing the "Reproductive Health Act," the former have legalized abortion up to the baby's due date.

Other than the centuries separating them, what exactly differentiates New York's state legislators from Aztec priests performing child sacrifices to Mictlantecuhtli, their god of death?

In passing the "Reproductive Health Act," the former have legalized abortion up to the baby's due date. What happened to the notion of "fetal viability," so fundamental in the Roe v. Wade decision? Ninety percent of babies born at 27 weeks survive, but now New York condones the killing of a child two minutes before or after its birth, depending on its mother's inclination.

Remember the pro-choice protestations regarding "bloody hangers in back alleys"? New York's new law would allow midwives and nurse practitioners to perform abortions. No moral qualms, no medical standards and no legal restrictions. New York's abortionists have been handed free rein, ostensibly to pre-empt the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

But there is a deeper reason.

The political left is militantly materialist. In its view, definitions of sexuality and human worth are to be made by man, not revealed from on high, by God. Thus, a fully formed child, breathing on its own, is not a person until acknowledged by some institutional authority. And a man who supposes he is a woman, far from being deluded, is one of an enlightened, modern gender. A pet no longer is a pet, but is an animal companion, with presumptive rights. The left, though not believing in God, wants to play God anyway, oblivious of irony.

This is why leftists take such pains to make the world "fair," warding off evil by constructing emotional biospheres called "safe spaces," where none may suffer from being "triggered" by micro-aggressions. It is a laughable utopia, a child's cosmology, but this is the left's version of heaven.

Hell, of course, is climate change.

Alexander Lee

West Chicago