Patrick Walsh asks an interesting question (letter, June 16). He wonders if people who say that abortion is murder are willing to say that every woman who has had an abortion has committed murder, and are they willing to see all those women incarcerated. What has the number of people engaged in an immoral activity have to do with whether or not the activity is immoral?
Anyway, I don't know of too many pro-life people who are interested in seeing the woman and girls who have had abortions being prosecuted now or in the future. Although touted as a "choice," too often it seems that these mothers have abortions because they have been lead to believe that, in their circumstances, they had no choice but to have an abortion.
Perhaps the people who ought to be held responsible in the future for the deaths of the unborn victims of abortion ought to be the doctors, clinic workers and pro-abortion advocates who present abortion as "just another choice," the legislators and judges who spout forth the, "I'm personally opposed, but ..." mantra, as well as the boyfriends, husbands, parents and other so-called friends who are more than willing to "support" a woman or girl in their decision to abort a baby, but not in their decision to give birth to a baby.
Pamela A. O'Keefe
Fargo
