I could not ignore Emeka Anyanwu’s recent editorial regarding abortion. Although I disagree with almost everything written, his most ridiculous contention is that a fetus is a human being the moment “individual brain waves” are detected. He then makes a flying leap to declare that “by that fact alone” abortions take human lives.

Perhaps Anyanwu feels that an individual brain wave makes a few cells a human, when in reality scraping your finger may kill more cells.

He implies, however, that because he feels this is the irrevocable beginning of human life, the rest of us automatically should and do feel the same way. In reality, there is not, as of yet, a clearly defined point at which our society agrees this transition occurs, much unlike the murder, which is presented as a parallel to abortion. Anyanwu’s comparison of the two is ridiculous at best; his declaration is a completely arbitrary moral view and is not credible evidence.

The truth of the matter is that different people feel human life begins at different stages of pregnancy, and with such a wide discrepancy of beliefs, the decision to have an abortion becomes an individual moral decision, not a legal decision to be forced upon females through a patriarchal government.

In conclusion, I would like to call attention to Anyanwu’s asinine statement that pro-choice activists have failed to produce “indisputable proof to justify their views.” This is certainly true. Pro-life activists never cease to dispute pro-choice arguments.

What Anyanwu forgot to mention is that the proof he claims pro-life lobbyists have is in fact constantly disputed. Case in point: I am disputing it now. His proof is not hard fact any more than pro-choice facts and should not be taken as such.

Suzan Cox

Freshman

Chemistry and chemical engineering