‘Personhood’ shows Ernst’s values

Peter Kennedy

Lynda Waddington's column on Oct. 5 that condemned Joni Ernst's support of the proposed 'personhood' amendment, did indeed take the abortion issue 'into the weeds.' Pro-abortion advocates' language of illusion is more effective 'in the weeds,' where they confuse America about abortion and babble their talking points.

The quintessential abortion question — Is a prenatal child a person? — is actually quite simple, but pro-choice advocates have continued to sell the Roe v. Wade fraud that said it's a 'difficult question' that 'we need not answer.' The affirmative pro-life answer is not only conclusive, it has absolutely nothing to do with being a matter of faith.

The only belief that is relevant to the abortion conflict is America's creed that 'all men are created equal.'

My yet to be published book, 'Conceived in Liberty,' presents evidence a person is what's living inside the womb of pregnant woman. The reality is elective abortion is unjustifiable homicide. There's no need to go into the fraudulent pro-abortion 'weeds' to clarify.

The 'personhood' amendment that Ernst supports and Waddington opposes, simply states:

'The inalienable right to life of every person at any stage of development shall be recognized and protected.'

Waddington and those who oppose the amendment must explain why any person should not be protected at any 'stage of development.' The phrase 'stage of development' is included to counter the fraudulent pro-choice statement that says, 'abortion is a reproductive decision.' Having an abortion has absolutely nothing to do with a 'reproductive decision' because every abortion takes place after the process of reproduction is successfully complete.

Abortion takes place during the process that is subsequent to reproduction, called development. Reproduction ends, and is history when a woman becomes pregnant at the completion of fertilization. Fertilization is conception, and Waddington agrees with that fact of life, as she writes about 'any fertilized human egg, from conception until birth'…but disagrees with her pro-abortion OBGYN cohorts who assert that conception ('the start of pregnancy') doesn't occur until the implantation of a prenatal child is complete…nearly two weeks after fertilization.

Some have fraudulently asserted this 50-year-old lie to cover for another 50-year-old scam that drugs and devices can and sometimes do prevent the implantation of a prenatal child are always 'contraceptive' and never cause abortion.

Because the definition of the word 'person,' as it relates to abortion, is a human being the phrase 'human being' also needs to be defined in order to settle the quintessential question. The dictionaries I havedefine 'human being'as 'any member of the species Homo sapiens.' If the organism developing inside the womb of a pregnant woman does not belong to the species Homo sapien, to what species does it belong?

By supporting the 'personhood' amendment, Ernst clearly demonstrates her strong commitment to knowledge and the American belief that 'all men are created equal.'

• Peter Kennedy is a Monticello chiropractor. Comments: pete7of10k@gmail.com.