Many of these letters about moral issues were published in the Southwest Times Record of Fort Smith, Arkansas over a period of several years.
In any confrontation, be it a political campaign, a debate or just an argument, you will find the following to be true:
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Newspaper and magazine articles have told of an unborn baby whose cries could be heard through its mother's ear. Mrs. A. J. Fritchey of Van Buren tells of hearing an unborn baby cry. Its cries were audible to those standing in the room. Can anyone argue that those babies were not people?
Many expectant mothers have been led to believe that the little life within them was simply a chunk of meat, a random growth, like a tumor. But a tumor does not have a heart that begins to beat during the first month of its existence. It doesn't have fingers and toes in a few weeks. It doesn't suck its thumb. It doesn't cry!
Pro-abortionists tell us that a woman has a right to do what she pleases with her own body. That has nothing to do with the issue of abortion. That unborn baby is not a part of the mother in any sense of the word. It is a separate person, and has been since the moment of conception. A woman who does not want a baby should not allow it to be conceived.
Occasionally a criminal is executed for such a crime as murder. Would the law allow him to be cut in little pieces, or placed in a container of saline solution so he would have to breathe and swallow it and die in convulsive agony? Would the law permit him to be dismembered by something like a giant vacuum cleaner or thrown naked and helpless into a trash barrel to die of starvation and exposure? Of course not! We have to use humane methods to deal with our criminals. The agonizing deaths are reserved for helpless, innocent unborn babies.
I have a message for Name Withheld, who was raped as a child and is still suffering from it. You don't have to continue carrying around that bitterness that is destroying your life. God will take it away, if you will let Him. But you'll have to be willing to give it up and forgive the one who wronged you. Then and only then will you find peace.
You said that the poor girl who gets pregnant from rape will be tortured all her life if she has to give birth to the fruit of violence. But you didn't have to, and you are still tortured. Do you think it would be easier to also be tortured by the knowledge that you had destroyed an innocent life?
What of the guilt that many women feel after having an abortion? Is there anything they can do to atone for destroying a little life? God is a forgiving God. They can ask His forgiveness. And they can seek out others who are considering abortion and tell them of the after effects. That would drastically reduce the number of abortions. And they, and all of us, can work toward the time when this wholesale murder will not be legal in our land.
Because I'm a woman, I speak out against abortion. It not only destroys the child but harms the mother as well. Some abortions cause physical problems, including sterility. Some cause emotional problems. The girl who is led to believe that she is just getting rid of a glob of tissue is often devastated when she realizes that she has caused the death of a darling baby. Those who feel no regret probably didn't realize when fatty degeneration of the conscience set in.
Because I'm a woman, I speak out against the feminist movement. The feminists do not speak for the majority of American women. Their stated aims are to abolish marriage and motherhood. They regard these as degrading to women. What really degrades women is the selfishness which wants to claim all rights and privileges and deny them to others. The woman who is all wrapped up in herself makes a very small package. Those who serve others and strive to make them happy are the ones who find happiness and fulfillment for themselves.
Because I'm a woman, I speak out against sex education in schools. Boys and girls should be taught the facts of life. But public school sex education is a how-to-do-it course with no moral guidelines. Waiting for marriage is considered old-fashioned. No wonder teen-age pregnancy has reached epidemic proportions!
Because I'm a woman and a mother it would mean a great deal to me if I knew that something I have written had caused some girl who contemplated abortion to let her baby live and fill the longing arms of some childless couple.
I'm pro-choice. I believe parents should have a choice as to how their children should be educated--in public school, private school, or at home.
I believe a mother should be allowed a choice as to where she will have her baby. If she wants to have it at home there should be a trained, licensed midwife to help her.
I believe students in public schools should have a choice as to whether they want to believe in creation or evolution. They should learn both sides of the question, instead of being brainwashed into believing that evolution is a scientifically proven fact. (Someone name one real proof, please!)
Abortion? I'm pro-choice on that too I believe the choice should be made by the person who has the most at stake -- the baby! If it chooses not to live, the matter will be taken care of without any outside interference.
According to a letter in the Southwest Times Record, some learned doctor has stated that a fetus should not be considered human until after the 28th week of pregnancy. How ridiculous can one get?
Many women have given birth to babies that were more then two months premature. Could the writer of the letter or the learned doctor convince those mothers that they had not given birth to human beings?
Why is abortion such a terrible thing? Shouldn't a woman have the right to do as she pleases with her own body?
That assumption by-passes a very important fact. Abortion is the destruction of someone else's body!
The unborn baby is not just a part of the mother, but a unique individual. How could one person be male and female at the same time? Yet approximately half of babies conceived are male. No person can have two types of blood. Yet many babies have a different blood type than their mothers. This proves that the baby is not be part of the mother's body.
Many pregnant teen-age girls are told that the life growing within them is just a blob of tissue. They are not told that it is a unique human being from the moment of conception. They are not told that there is a discernable heart beat before the first month has passed and that brain waves have been recorded at forty days.
They are not told that at twelve weeks the baby has fingerprints and can kick, swallow and make a fist. He/she is sensitive to heat, touch, light and noise. And by this age a little thumb is very likely to find its way into the tiny mouth!
Abortion not only destroys the baby, but it hurts the mother as well. Sooner or later she will feel remorse over ending a life. Suicide is much more common among women who have had abortions. Many suffer physical damage. Some can never have another child. Abortion is a disaster!
Exodus 20:13 (KJV) Thou shalt not kill. (murder)
Exodus 21:22 (NIV) If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely, but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is any serious injury, you are to take life for life.
Psalm 139:13 (NIV) For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb.
Jeremiah 1:5 (KJV) Before I formed thee in the womb I knew thee; and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee to be a prophet to the nations.
II Kings 24:1, 2 is an account of enemies coming against Judah. Verses 3 and 4 tell the reason.
Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sin of Manasseh, according to all that he did.
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord WOULD NOT PARDON.