This letter appeared Sunday, January 09, 2005
in the State Journal Register, Springfield, IL
My response follows.
Prays those who favor abortion will change
This month it will be 22 years since the Supreme Court made a terrible decision of letting a woman destroy her baby. Since then there have been more than 45 million abortions.
Just think, these babies would be in their teens, twenties and thirties. They would all be taxpayers and billions would have been paid into Social Security.
How many of these babies may have been a priest, nun, rabbi, governor, mayor or even president of the United States? If we want to be blessed by God abortion must stop now. I pray that the pro-abortionists will open their hearts and change their minds about abortions.
Then God will bless our country once again.
Danny Faulkner
Springfield
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sun 1 9 05
This month it will be 22 years since the Supreme Court made the wise and well-reasoned decision of letting a woman’s own body trump the rights of a microscopic zygote. Since then, countless women have exercised their own judgment, often in conjunction with that of their partners and physicians, rather than be dictated to by strangers in Washington, DC. on this very personal and private matter.
Just think, though arguably some of these fetuses, if forced to enter the domain of full-fledged humanity, might have become clergypersons or politicians, probability suggests that many of these unwanted souls would have turned to crime, drugs, and other manifestations of poverty and neglect. All of them would have contributed to an already overcrowded planet whose inhabitants squabble over finite space and resources.
If we want to be blessed by God, we must realize and acknowledge that God does not condone a “my God is right, your God is wrong” approach to religion. Nor has an absolute God issued an edict declaring abortion anything remotely the equivalent of murder.
God will bless our country when its citizens respect the freedom of others to worship - or not worship - as they choose.