OPINION:
As preparations are being made for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of our independence, it is notable how our country has changed for the worse.
Before the 1973 Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, which legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, most women avoided premarital sex and, when married, accepted the children God blessed them with.
Now, more than 1 million babies are killed by abortion each year. Abortionists show no respect for the preborn, even performing abortions to harvest the babies’ organs for experiments.
Planned Parenthood, one of the leading abortion providers, sells pills that cause abortion but risk women’s health and lives. Planned Parenthood ignores safety regulations, telling women these pills can be used beyond the limit imposed by the Food and Drug Administration. To Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, pregnant women are merely a means of profit.
Recently, Planned Parenthood found another way to make money from women: by selling them abortion pills in case they become pregnant (“Planned Parenthood thumbs nose at FDA by selling abortion pills to women before they’re pregnant,” Web, May 27).
Unfortunately, our Republican administration is allowing this mistreatment of women to continue. The Democratic Party not only ignores the risks to women but is also dedicated to funding Planned Parenthood with more than $800 million of our taxes annually.
Sadly, our country is awash in the blood of the preborn. We must return to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, especially respect for life, or we will cease to exist as a republic.
CAROLYN NAUGHTON
Silver Spring, Maryland
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