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Right to choose equal to the right to murder

On Dec. 17, yet another letter proclaiming a woman’s right to choose. The problem with these types is the insensitivity, callousness and casualness with which they write off the life of another whose continued existence would be an inconvenience.

Do they ever think before speaking? Do they feel nothing? Do they ever experience empathy for the plight of a tiny, innocent, helpless person? Have they ever had or held a tiny baby? Have they no shame whatsoever?

I don’t know what the answer is, but I do know that the mindset that permits unwanted children to be murdered wholesale is the same one that allows soldiers to execute prisoners because it would be inconvenient to take them back through the lines. It is the same mindset that allowed millions to die in the gulag because they were no longer seen as human.

Steve Smith

Kahului

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