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[ Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1993 ]

Letter to the Editor
Whose body?

Here's a quarter. . .to call someone who cares. . .and to buy a clue, Scott Klugman. In your rebuttal to Caroline Brenneman's letter, you said, "we respect your beliefs and have no desire to force you to have an abortion." You asked why people who respect life, both born and unborn, cannot respect your beliefs? Although respecting each others' beliefs is important, it is not the real issue in the abortion debate, Scott. The rights of the unborn children are. . .and they have none. These are the rights for whom we pro-lifers are fighting.

In this increasingly secular society that we live in, we constantly hear the cry of the pro-choice advocate, "my body, my decision." Have you and other pro-choicers forgotten that when a woman is pregnant it is not just her body anymore? A woman should realize that the fetus is "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh" (Gen 2:23). There is a living breathing human being at stake. Quit trying to rationalize what you know in your heart is morally wrong. Maybe you should ease your conscience and give God a call, it doesn't cost anything.

Brad A. Bittner
graduate-horticulture
 



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