If it isn't abortion, then why isn't there a baby anymore?

Ms. Kay Ohana, in a previous letter, made the statement that the “morning after” pill does not cause an abortion. Really? Fact: “It prevents a FERTILIZED egg from attaching to the uterine wall because the high doses of the drug makes the uterus a hostile environment.” Conception, life, has already taken place. The child (not a frog or a peanut), dies as a result when it is ABORTED because it has no acceptable place to attach to continue to grow.

Put your head in the sand, but biologically, physically, genetically, embryologically, pregnancy begins at conception according to experts and according to God. When Mary greeted Elizabeth, she was just DAYS pregnant, within the same time period that the “day after” pill rejects the fertilized egg, her cousin referred to her as “the MOTHER of my Lord” (Luke 1:43).

Anyone who believes this lie about emergency contraceptive pills isn’t doing their homework, just like all those who believed the mainstream media when they claimed that the majority of women approved of abortion in the 1960s and that it is “just a blob of flesh.” Even hardened Planned Parenthood directors like Abby Johnson have quit their position and become pro-life advocates when they saw “the blob’s” torn limbs reassembled after an abortion which formed a perfect baby. It is clear that the abortifacients like “day-after pills” TERMINATE pregnancy, prematurely, in its early stages.

When do you think pregnancy begins... when you buy your first maternity clothes? when someone asks you when you are due? when the doctor tells you that you are? We have greater intelligence about biological functions now. We know when conception begins and we know that to be a new life.

We’re not talking about women having control over their own wombs; we’re talking about killing a child. A child is not “your womb.” A baby’s fingerprints are different from the mother, his blood type and gender may be different, his DNA is different. This child you want to be able to kill is not “your body.”

And as with other slippery slopes, do you also want to kill a “defective child” (whose standards?) and “special needs children”? What degree of imperfection in your judgement deserves death? Who’s next? “Males in the Catholic Church” who oppose murder of the unborn?

A Tay-Sachs child usually dies between 4 and 5 years old which allows enough time that he is made a child of God through baptism which allows him to spend eternity in heaven where he will have the highest degree of perfection. Genetic testing detects carriers of the gene for this disorder and both parents must have it to maybe affect the child, so if you fit this rare case and are terrified by the possibility of a child with Tay-Sachs, then your option is to actually take some responsibility by using some self-control and abstinence. Choose the act — you choose the consequence.

Terry Mimnaugh is a resident of Lakeside.