The most basic Right

I write letters to the editor to the Dallas Morning News expressing my thoughts on a regular basis and surprisingly they get published over half the time. I guess they want to provide letters from at least one person that provides a pro-military, conservative, Catholic, and veteran voice while also expressing an anti-Obama opinion!

The last one was on abortion and the right to life and today someone wrote a rebuttal accusing me of being unable to understand women’s rights or the need for abortion because I am a man.  She took offense since the point of my letter was that so called “women’s rights” should not trump the more basic right to life of a human zygote. All this is timely because the annual 40 Days for Life pro life campaign has been in full swing for the last several weeks and today my wife and I went and did our usual Rosary watch outside an abortion clinic. As we were walking on the sidewalk in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic I thought of how distorted the so called women’s rights has become to advocate that killing a human is OK and is a “constitutional right” of a women.

Science has proven that life begins at conception and that the human zygote meets all the biological criteria for life. When the Supreme Court made the infamous Roe v Wade decision in 1973 they based that decision on the assumption that it was not settled science when life began. So the whole basis for the argument that abortion is not killing a human being is based a on a lie just as Obama’s claim that there was no abortion funding in Obamacare was a lie. The Affordable Care Act provides funding for Planned Parenthood (the largest abortion provider nationwide) and over 40 of the state’s insurance partnerships (partially funded through Obamcare) must offer abortion.

The right to life is basic to the expression of all our other liberties (notice which comes first in the Declaration of Independence). You don’t have to be women to understand that – just a human being.