Imposed on others
A religious war is developing in the United States, pitting individuals who believe a human being with a soul exists at the moment of conception and to interfere with the natural development of that being is to commit murder, against those who believe that a fertilized egg is human only in potential and not in fact until the fetus reaches viability.
Many individuals hold beliefs that lie somewhere in between these views.
Medical studies have determined that fewer than 70 percent of all fertilized eggs will implant into the mother’s womb causing pregnancy to continue.
Once implanted, 25-50 percent will spontaneously abort. After one month of implantation, another 25 percent will abort for a variety of natural causes.
So the failure of a fertilized human egg to develop into a living human infant is a very common, natural event in human biology.
These medical facts are ignored by those who insist that every fertilized egg has the full protection of the Constitution.
Many of these individuals also are against most forms of birth control.
Is it right for those who hold a particular religious belief to impose their will on everyone through federal and state legislation or presidential executive orders?
Threatened is access to abortion, the right to use a form of contraception that is best for you and the principle of
separation of church and state.
Tell your legislators that religious beliefs held by some should never be legally imposed on all the citizens of the USA.
Mary Wegmann,
Port Angeles