ABORTION: Don't be deceived

I once had a long talk with a pro-abortion woman who finally confessed, “Yes, I know it’s a baby, but I still want the right to kill it at my decision.” She is the only honest pro-abort I’ve ever met and I told her I respected her for that honesty, though of course not for her position.

Joan Harman (Letters, March 6) falls into the other category: those who deny the obvious either through ignorance or self-deception in order to justify what they know in their secret hearts is just plain wrong. She rejects religion as a basis for facing the truth, but ignores that all of western civilization’s laws grew from a Judeo-Christian heritage — including that killing the innocent is wrong. To be blunt, that’s called murder, self-deception notwithstanding. Harman falsely claims that “most abortions involve miscarriages.” Not even close to true. 97 percent are for convenience, 40 percent are repeats for birth control, 3 percent are for rape, incest or life of the mother. America’s total abortions have now exceeded 55 MILLION -— most involving miscarriages? Gimme a break — and give you a break from these deceptions that lead so many young women into killing their own babies and being haunted by that for the rest of their lives.

HANS NEUMANN

Spirit Lake