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Unborn children deserve protection
Mary Jane Svoboda
Oct. 9, 2014 1:00 am
It is time to re-examine our thinking about abortion.
If you are hiding behind the belief that it's a woman's right to choose or that a woman has a right to do with her own body as she chooses, as I did, consider this: What right does an unborn child have?
We are living in a world where words have no meaning. Right is being called wrong, and wrong is being called right.
In the mother's womb a child is called a fetus or a blob of tissue. Technology shows us the truth through ultrasound pictures of a child. It is time that we no longer hide behind the deception that abortion is acceptable.
The law in the United States calls premeditated killing of a person murder. Therefore, it is time to call abortion murder. Abortion is the premeditated killing of an unborn child.
It is time to vote for the protection of unborn children. It is time that we examine our political party's platform to determine where it stands on abortion. We do not want to vote to murder unborn children.
Mary Jane Svoboda
Aurora
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