Abortion is not a ‘gray area’; it’s wrong

Published 7:46 pm Saturday, April 1, 2006

Before I respond to Jean Kelly’s letter (“Everyone has a right to opinion on abortion,” Tuesday, March 28), I would like to publicly express my appreciation for The Meridian Star in providing a means for all of us to express our opinions, no matter what they are.

I also commend all who write, which shows a willingness to discuss various viewpoints with those who may be in opposition to them. It is always my hope and prayer that this process will lead to a better understanding of one another’s positions, leading to greater harmony and unity among us.

In accordance with this, it is not my desire to be offensive to anyone but to express my earnest convictions on issues I consider very important to all of us. Life is always important. Thus, every decision about life is important.

Ms. Kelly has rightly said that I as a man can not “know how it feels to carry a child in a womb.” However, in World War II, there may have been men who served in the medical field because their conscience would not allow them to kill. Yet these men did their duty in the face of great suffering at the risk of their own lives. Would a woman have to be a man to call a man “dishonorable” for abandoning his comrades in the heat of battle? I think not. In like manner, I do not need to be a woman to say abortion is murder.

Ms. Kelly writes, “If you read my letter correctly, I was only stating that, in my opinion, abortion is a lot nicer than a mother giving birth, pretending to love it, and then taking its life away.” I understood that opinion but disagreed with it. Is it a lot nicer for a doctor to deliver everything but the head of a baby and then stick scissors in the back of his head and suck his brains out with a high-powered suction tube?

What is really not so “nice” are the lies the abortion industry tells to cover up the wickedness of abortion. When the details of partial-birth abortion were uncovered, abortionists defended the procedure, saying it occurred only a few hundred times a year, was not painful to the infant, the babies were deformed and it was a necessity for the mother. But in public forums, abortionists were forced to admit the babies can feel pain, many thousands of such abortions occur every year, and 80 percent to 90 percent of the babies were normal. Dr. C. Everett Coop, former U.S. surgeon general, stated: “…. in no way can I twist my mind to see that the late-term abortion as described is a medical necessity for the mother. It certainly can’t be a necessity for the baby.”

My friends, whether man or woman, we all ought to be sick of the abortion industry. We ought to be sick and tired of seeing signs advertising abortion saying “children are messy and smelly unless you want one.” We ought to be sick and tired of organizations like Planned Parenthood who glorify abortion with T-shirts saying “I had an abortion” as if that was a red badge of courage, the murder of children.

Ms. Kelly writes, “There are a lot of gray areas in life, where people disagree on certain things.” Perhaps that is correct. But abortion should not be one of them if the killing of children within the womb is wrong. My prayers to God would be that we as a nation, like Jesus (Mark 10:13-16) would take infants (Luke 18:15/New King James Version) “up in our arms and bless them” rather than exterminating them.

Ms. Kelly says, “We live in a world filled with poverty and disease and a lot of hate.” We can change the world we live in by doing the right thing. Dear women, please consider what I say. Before you decide to abort your baby, consider adoption. One can be involved in the adoption process to determine the kind of family with whom your child will be placed.

Whatever your decision, to keep the child or placement for adoption, abortion is not the right thing to do!



Abraham Smith

Columbus