Letter: Babies in womb need protection

Friday, March 10, 2006 | 7:21 a.m.

Regarding Ama Trussel's March 8 letter, "Abortion ban is an attack on women's rights": Banning abortion is a states' rights issue. If a state government of the people, for the people and by the people decides to ban abortion, that is its prerogative.

Abortion is a violation of human rights. Yes, the unborn are human beings - a scientific fact. Trussel intentionally avoids this by using the term fetus and "it." She, like so many pro-abortionists, hide behind labels to mask their own flawed reasoning.

Just because a woman's body is a temporary host for a baby does not mean the government should sanction a legal right to kill the baby. The fact is for a short nine-month period we all spend time inside the body of another person.

Since babies in or outside their mothers' wombs cannot defend themselves, the government has an obligation to protect their civil rights.

It is amazing that the one place that should be the safest place for a baby - the mother's womb - a baby can be legally snuffed out and killed in our society today.

Mark McDermott, North Las Vegas

archive