Letter: Legalized abortion is a license to kill

Saturday, March 11, 2006 | 7:28 a.m.

Regarding Ama Trussell's March 8 letter, "Abortion ban is an attack on women's rights":

In Ama's America, it is best for the people of this country to ignore the murder of 40 million children. In Ama's America, women and their families have the right to kill their children because it is a "private (and) personal decision about whether and when to have children."

To truly care in Ama's America, government should fund research to make sure that sex does not result in the conception of human life. Nonetheless, if a man or a woman fails to use the magic pill or prophylactic device invented, a truly caring government would allow the mother to murder the child because it would "alter" her life.

In Ama's America, people aren't required to take responsibility for their "choices" that lead to the conception of human life. Instead, when life results from a poor "choice," the answer is to hold the child responsible for the "choice" by invoking the death penalty on the rude little fetus that forced himself into the mother's womb. After all, in Ama's America, mothers have the "liberty" and "freedom" to kill "mistakes" and "inconveniences."

Like the people of South Dakota, I am tired of living in Ama's America. We need our government to show it cares by enacting laws that recognize that life begins at the time of conception and that each human being is totally unique immediately at fertilization. Such life should be entitled to due process of law and applied equally to born and unborn human beings.

Jason D. Guinasso, Reno