To the editor,
Monday, Jan. 22, marked 45 years of Roe v Wade. The unjust Supreme Court decision has brought massive levels of death to separate, genetically unique "human" beings - the sole purpose of the act. Sixty million dead. It has damaged women and deeply wounded our nation.
Perpetually frozen to 1973 science and understanding Roe is crumbling under the weight of its
own ignorance, due to the severely outdated empirical and medical data underpinning the ruling.
Roe is the antithesis to the preeminent right from which all other rights flow: the right to life. The abortion lobby disagrees, claiming self-awareness, viability and other arbitrary traits define humanity and a right to an individual's life. If that's the case, then human value exists on a sliding scale; the highly aware have more value than the oblivious, those who are self-reliant have more than those who depend on family, friends, or government and so on.
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A right to life does not hinge on the situational relativism of those who possess the power of life or death over the unborn.
Herald columnist Lloyd Omdahl recently addressed abortion in his weekly column. His argument conspicuously lacked any correlation or reference to Scripture - rare for the author - and was completely silent concerning 2018 established science; undeniable relevancy concerning our pre-birth existence, based on fact.
Scripture is unanimous and unambiguous in its condemnation of intentionally killing an image-bearer of God, beyond self-defense. Faith communities - routinely criticized by Omdahl - continue their crucial role in the abortion battle; the only significant bulwark remaining against what's overrunning nearly every major secular institution.
The denial of science and the denying of personhood to anyone scientifically human shatters the concept of human equality.
After 45 years and 60 million dead, two prominent elephants of conscience remain in the room and in the arena of debate, purposefully avoided in thought or conversation about Roe; responsibility and accountability. Factors of fear.
Lincoln was right. "The government is not empowered to protect one individual's right to do
wrong to another, but to protect those who would be victimized from those who would victimize."
R.J. Ogaard
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