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Letter: Unborn babies another victim of abortion rape issue

Monday, April 21, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

The nature of the unborn baby, the only reason to oppose abortion, is unchanged by rape. The child is actually a second victim of the crime. Exceptions for rape call for a sell-out on principle. The weakening or demolition of protective laws by demands for rape or other exceptions has turned the vast majority of abortion victims into collateral damage at rates approaching 100 percent. These children are the primary victims of the wedge. But those who have morally degraded themselves by falling for such ploys are secondary victims.

From the false claim of rape in Roe vs. Wade to the federal government's coercing of the states over Medicaid, the rape wedge has been standard operating procedure for abortion zealots. Those who deal in wedge issues know that, when it comes to No. 1, they can count on many to spurn principle and revert to outcome-based morality.

Alfred Lemmo

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