Nearly all of the 60,000,000+ legal abortions in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade have been performed because the mother decided her life would be better if her baby wasn’t born. This could be because she was raped or wasn’t with the father anymore or didn’t want to spend money on her baby or because, as one young college student once told me before aborting her baby the next day, “I’m young and want to have fun, and a baby will ruin all that.”

Tragically, these mothers convince themselves that their baby is somehow part of their own body, like some sort of unwanted tumor, and does not have the God-given right to life. Similarly tragic and head-scratching is the notion that only women get a say so in deciding if these human beings get the chance to live outside the womb.

We would never (I hope) kill a child after he/she was born simply because that child has physical challenges or reminds the mother of the child’s father or has become a financial burden or inconvenience. If it is finally time to stop allowing the legal killing of unborn children in the mother’s womb for those same reasons in the name of the sanctity of human life, I am for it.

Mark Wingfield

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