First a few facts: Each day in the United States, more than 3,000 babies are aborted or put to death. Day in day out.
While the number has dropped slightly the last couple of years, from 3,300, it is still astonishing to most people the level of innocent blood spilled in the name of (insert irony here) saving babies from poor lives or moms from difficult ones. Most of us are oblivious to the volume of this tragedy of choice.
About 24 percent of all pregnancies end in an abortion. That would be close to one in four. Less than 20 percent end in miscarriage. We may ask the question why most of us men, for instance, know how many homers Hank Aaron hit but have no idea the scope of the devastation we willingly reap each day, each week, each month and year in year out. What I don”t see is a counter like Mickie D Burgers … 55 million and counting since Roe v. Wade.
We can rationalize, we can close our eyes, we can even encourage more of the same as the letter writer of “All hospitals should provide abortions” advocates, but perhaps it is time to take stock and think differently about the ramifications of our freedom.
The irony of the March 14 letters to the editor is contained in the nearly side-by-side placement of the “Glory to God” letter with the “All hospitals should provide” letter. The stark contrast in world views, in ethics and in an understanding of the true nature of what constitutes a problem speaks volumes.
No matter which perspective you take, most are stunned and at least somewhat saddened at the facts this letter opened with. The question is: What are you going to do about it? Watch another homer sail over the fence? Perhaps we need more hospitals encouraging more death. Check out the ultrasound of a 10-week-old baby embryo and get back to me on that.
Doug Del Bosco
Lakeport
