Letter: Freedom also applies to unborn children

Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006 | 8:39 a.m.

Tanya Brown, in her Jan. 6 letter, states that "women still aren't allowed to decide what to do with their own bodies." But women vote, marry freely, can bear firearms, are entitled to unemployment and Social Security benefits, have free speech and many other constitutional rights. I'm confused: the Bush administration is "robbing our women of their rights here at home"?

If the right to abort an unborn child is to Brown "a personal freedom," then she has crossed the line and we are now discussing whether or not it is lawful to murder an unborn child.

Why, when Brown asks the rhetorical question -- "shouldn't we protect our 'freedom'?" -- does she not include the freedom of the unborn child? Isn't she glad that her mother included her "freedom" when she had her?

Rest assured that Samuel Alito, if confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, is not the one who is going to overturn Roe v. Wade. If anything is going to overturn Roe v. Wade, it will be medical research, testing and profound verification that a child is a child at the moment of inception.

Americans are now realizing (though slowly) that the life in the womb deserves just as much freedom as the woman bearing that child.

Timothy R. Carroll

Las Vegas