In response to the March 29 letter “Signs are too easy:” The writer brings up the pro-choice argument that there are children who are victims of abuse and neglect as well as those born to murderers, sex abusers and criminals.
Also those whose parents have learning disabilities or are otherwise “unfit” to have children.
My response: Yes, there are, unfortunately, children who are victims of abuse and neglect.
As a civilized society, we do what we can to help these children.
We have adoption agencies, child protective services and laws to hold parents criminally responsible.
What we don’t do is kill the children for the crimes of the parents.
So why kill the child if it is still in the mother’s womb?
The fact is, the vast majority of those who abort their children are not criminals or otherwise “unfit.”
Most are people who are merely inconvenienced, in my opinion.
They deem it easier, since it is socially acceptable, to kill a child before birth than face financial burden and inconvenience.
Those who “hold signs” are hoping to bring forward the issue and encourage parents to re-think what they are doing — killing a child, no matter what age.
For more information on this subject, please consider reading the book, “Why Pro-Life?: Caring For the Unborn and Their Mothers,” by Randy Alcorn.
This is an issue that not only impacts both men and women on a deeply personal level but touches us as a nation as well.
It is time to take off the blinders.
Trisha Plute,
Port Angeles