Steve Beck: Family values must extend to the unborn
Re “Time for ‘family values’ Congress to value families” (Opinions, Jan. 26): You claim that some California congressmen are picking on kids and pregnant women by being “eager to force pregnant women to have unwanted children.” Take an honest look at the alternative: allow pregnant women to kill unwanted children – how is that not “picking on kids”?
Would you also advocate for allowing women to kill their children after birth if they are “unwanted”? Those pro-life congressmen simply know the scientific fact that you deny: except for their location, there is no difference in the humanity of an unborn baby and a born baby. Passing through the birth canal is a 12-inch physical change of location, not a magic transformation from blob of tissue to human being. The “choice” that you stand for is simple: pregnant women, mothers already, must choose between having a live baby or causing a dead baby. Standing up for defenseless unborn babies is virtuous, support for abortion is the epitome of anti-family values.
Steve Beck, Merced
This story was originally published January 27, 2015 at 11:34 AM with the headline "Steve Beck: Family values must extend to the unborn."