If abortion is undeniably the taking of human life, and yet some people feel that it should be just a personal matter between a woman and the doctor, it leads me to think they would believe that other acts of destruction of human beings such as infanticide and homicide should be of no concern to society and therefore eliminate them from the criminal code. This, I cannot believe, is the thinking of the majority, although the tendency for doctors to respect

As an opponent to abortion, I will readily agree as will all those who are against abortion, that pregnancy resulting from rape or incest is a tragedy. Rape is a detestable crime, but no sane reasoning can place the slightest blame on the unborn child it might produce. The act of rape or incest is emotional and physical trauma to the young girl or woman. Should we compound the psychic scar already inflicted on the mother by her having the guilt of destroying a living being which was partially hers? Throughout history, pregnant women who for one crime or another were sentenced to death, were given a stay of execution until after the delivery of the child: it being the contention of courts that one could not punish the innocent child for the crime of the mother. Can we punish it for a crime against the mother?

negotiable. It's easy to be concerned with the welfare of those we know and love, while regarding everybody else as less important and somehow, less real. Most people would rather hear about the death of thousands in the Honduras flooding disaster than of a serious accident involving a

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