I am writing to explain why comparing the Holocaust to abortion is valid ("Graphic photos shock some," Oct. 25). Nazi Germany thought of the Jews and others (Roma, Slavic people and the mentally handicapped) as racially inferior, and thought they did not have the same worth as someone who was a pure-blood German. They were not seen as fully human, and were treated as second class citizens, just as blacks were viewed in the American south.

Unborn babies are not considered real people; they do not have the same worth as a born baby, and they are not seen as fully human. It comes down to a question of, "Does this person have the same worth as me, is this person a human?"

Saying that this is not a valid comparison because "the Jews were human and unborn babies are not" is not stating an agreed upon fact, but the main point of debate. Many people believed Jews were fully human, many people believed that the blacks were fully human, and many people believe that unborn babies are fully human.

If it is eventually accepted that unborn babies are human, we will look back on these years, like we look back on the Holocaust, and say, "How could we have let such a slaughter happen right under our noses?"

And if it is never believed that they are fully human we will probably always have to fight that percentage of the population that does believe it.