Letter: Status of life being ignored
In a prior letter to the editor ('Planned Parenthood needs more funds'), the writer states that Greg Johnson (in his column 'Planned Parenthood video should matter') 'once again completely missed the important points on this issue.'
Unfortunately, the writer totally ignored the specific questions that were raised by Johnson asking how is it moral to end a human life, and how is it moral to then dissect and provide the post-abortion remains of that life for medical research.
As important as these questions are, those who support a right to abortion routinely gloss over them. Rather than speak directly to these issues, pro-abortion rights advocates try to downplay their significance and deflect attention away from them. Instead of acknowledging these critical issues, they make comments like 'no one likes abortion,' which has nothing to do with the legality of an act where the life of another hangs in the balance.
It is the status of the life of the unborn that is at the heart of the controversy involving not only the funding of Planned Parenthood, but also the legality of abortion itself. It is a vitally important issue that goes straight to the core of our very identity as a nation. At a minimum, it is an issue that deserves to be forthrightly addressed, rather than simply ignored, by pro-abortion rights proponents.
Ken Gerstenmaier, Morristown