Columnist made a point on abortion

I must congratulate Kathleen Parker on her excellent article regarding politics and abortion. Abortion should not be such a political division in today's world. With all of modern day's science, surely there are ways of preventing pregnancies. If no unwanted pregnancies, no need for abortions.

To the writer in that same day's paper who found David Clark's comments so insensitive, I must remind him that over 11 million people were murdered by the Nazis when their only crime was that they were: Jewish, homosexuals, soviet civilians, Soviet POWs, non-Jewish Polish civilians, Serbs, people with disabilities, Roma (gypsies) or German political prisoners.

None of these individuals "volunteered" for the camps, just like any unborn child does not "volunteer" to his/hers abortion. You can say a child isn't a human until the child has been born and separated from his mother's womb and that a woman has the right to her body. But who speaks for the child? Just like who spoke up against the camps? Just because it is the law does not make it moral.

Mike Fenton

Glenview