ABORTION: Where would you be now?

Alex Ferguson: According to scientists life begins when the cell splits for the first time, be it tree, bird, or human. There is a  human heartbeat after only 22 days from conception. You still believe that after a few months when the fetus inside a woman is moving around it is not alive or a person.

You believe sex is for fun and has no consequences when indeed you would be the first to walk away from that pregnant girl because it is easier to get an abortion. You are not aware that 65 percent of women and even men have serious issues and second thoughts after having an abortion.

So go home and hug your mom and dad and thank them for allowing you to put pen to paper and express your freedom of speech. Remember there have been more than 5O million fetuses since Roe v. Wade who will not have that chance, that is one child almost every 30 seconds in the U.S. alone. Imagine what even one of those little minds could have become or accomplished for the world.

And to the 14-year-old who believes in same sex marriage that goes for you too. Mom and mom or dad and dad does not equal child. Procreation of some sort has to happen to be born, so you would not be here either.

STEVEN SKREENOCK

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