Abortion: To choose or not to choose is not the question.

This letter is in response to Leslie Heuer’s Jan. 29 column, “Pro-Life advocates ambush womens’ rights,” about why abortion should be a choice.

Even before the first turn, the pro-choice chariot veers severely off course. The very name of the movement signifies their main point, that it is the woman’s right to choose.

It is her right to choose what is right for her body. It is her right for her to choose what to do with her pregnancy. It is her right to choose whether she wants the child or not.

Neither I nor any other gray-haired conservative old man who enjoys the freedoms of this great nation can argue with someone’s right to choose.

In this case, however, the right to choose has nothing to do with it.

If the real issue was a right to choose, pro-choice people would defend the rights of a mother who chooses to kill her two year old child.

If the real issue was a right to choose, those same people wouldn’t care if someone chose to kill an abandoned, orphaned or unwanted child. “But that’s different” you say, and I agree.

The real issue is not choice. The real issue is whether killing an unborn child is murder, which begs the question, is an unborn child a human being or something else?

Let me be honest and say that I don’t think this short letter will persuade many, if any, and certainly not the hardened pro-choice voters. The one point I wanted to get across is that the argument about choice is not the correct argument when it comes to abortion. The real argument is whether an unborn child is a living person.

If an unborn child is not a human being, then no excuse for abortion is required. If it is, no excuse is good enough.

Luke Leichty

Junior

Agriculture