Editor,
I am writing to commend the anti-abortion presentation that was on campus on Monday. I think it is about time that people see the real faces of abortion, the innocent children that are brutally murdered. I know that a lot of women believe that anti-abortion protests are about taking away rights from women, but I don't think that is the case. It is about giving rights to those who cannot defend themselves.
I don't know where anyone got the idea that killing an unborn child was all right. They are people, they have their own DNA, they are not a "part of the mother's body" as some pro-choice people think. As a society we condemn mothers who throw their newborns in dumpsters but not everyone realizes that moments ago they were in their mothers' wombs and they were still a person then, not just after their birth. There is no difference between killing an unborn child and a newborn child.
The alternatives that I suggest to women that are not ready for a child, as opposed to murder are simple, birth control or abstinence. And for those women who become pregnant as a result of rape and do not want the child, they should give the child up for adoption to loving parents that choose to have that child regardless of circumstances. It is not the innocent child's fault that it's mother was raped. The cycle of violence should stop there. There is no excuse for violence against innocent children.
Jennifer Lolita Salaz
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UNM biology student
