Editor, Times-Union:
Human life begins at fertilization. At fertilization, a distinct (unique DNA), genetically complete (with all of your genetic code), and self-directing (your biological development has always been striving to reach your fulfillment) human being is formed.
Some people think the pre-born have less value that born people, because of their size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependency. However, we know that larger males have no more value than smaller females. A child has no less value than an adolescent. A person who lives with their parents has no less value than a person who lives in their own home. The elderly who live in a nursing home have no less value than young people.
In cases of rape or incest, the pre-born was not able to influence how they were conceived. It is wrong to intentionally end the life of a child because of the violence of the father.
When the pre-born have a fatal anomaly, the doctor should make every effort to render care that respects life. An elective abortion kills the innocent life. When a born person develops a fatal condition, the medical community does not take that person’s life.
When the mother develops a life-threatening condition, the doctor should treat the mother to save her life. There is a difference between an intervention treating a serious medical condition that unintentionally ends a human life and an intervention that deliberately and purposefully ends a human life. In some cases an urgent medical treatment may result in the unintended passing of an unborn human life, the treatment never requires an abortion – the direct and intentional termination of a pre-born human.
Elective abortion is the directly intended termination of an innocent pre-born human life.
Since human life begins at fertilization and abortion is the intentional termination of an innocent human life, it is wrong to intentionally end an innocent human life.
Three of Indiana’s Supreme Court Justices are up for retention in this election. All three of them voted to uphold Indiana’s partial abortion ban. However, all three of them said they would not have upheld it if it did not have an exception for the life of the mother.
Please join me in voting not to retain Indiana Supreme Court justices: Rush, Massa, and Molter.
Craig Nayrocker
Warsaw, via email