Dear editor:
About one week ago a pro-life/anti-abortion group spent time on campus and got some people all riled up. While I am pro-life, I cannot support all of the tactics that particular group uses to oppose abortion. Some of its members would say that it is not evil to kill a doctor who performs abortions, an extreme view to say the least. But don't dismiss the cause because you disagree with some of their tactics.
Since the group's appearance on campus, I have read a couple of statements in the Daily News that beg for comment.
On the following day, one student was quoted by the Daily News as saying, "They (the demonstrators) crossed the line because the poster (depicting an aborted baby) is disrespectful to that baby." I would say that those most disrespectful were those who killed the baby in the first place, but where was this student's voice then? To ignore the destruction of these innocent unborn children would be the least respectful thing we could do. It would be like ignoring the innocent victims of the Nazi Holocaust, for example.
Which brings us to the DN columnist on April 9 who asked the question, "... how can that group compare the Holocaust to abortion?" Here is the connection: both topics focus on the elimination of the innocent for the sole reason that they were unwanted by people who had the power to destroy them. Holocaust Web sites tell us that approximately 6 million European Jews were killed during the Nazi rule in Germany; another 5 million non-Jews were also executed by the Nazis. As for abortions, the Web site for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tells us that there have been an average of 1.2 million abortions EVERY YEAR in the United States in the 30 years since the Roe v. Wade decision. In that time, approximately 36 million abortions have taken place, the vast majority, according to the CDC, were unrelated to rape, incest, or concern for the life of the mother.
All of these statistics are shameful and show us the worst of humanity. Just as the numbers executed by the Nazis were slow to be acknowledged, and just as there are still some people who refuse to believe the truth about the Holocaust, there are people who deny the truth of the horror of abortion. Truth is true whether we choose to believe it or not. If we could go back in time 60 years, wouldn't we feel compelled to stop what we are now aware was happening to the Jews and others who were executed in
Europe? Why should we feel any less compassionate about the innocent who are destroyed right here in the United States?
Reed Siebenthal
Academic Advising
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