LETTER: Call it a human life and then see how you feel

This is in reference to Susan Cahill’s letter.

When cells divide and grow, there is life. This is a fact. To say otherwise reminds me of the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”

When a woman is pregnant she is pregnant with a human being, not an elephant, monkey, etc. When that human life should be protected is a moral or religious decision.

Some would say that abortion is OK until the fetus is viable. But when would that be? Babies are being born weighing two pounds or less and surviving and growing up as normal children.

“Fetal tissue” has such a generic sound to it. They are human fetuses, not animals. To think that an innocent unborn child is being killed through abortion or after being aborted and its various parts being sold for science is appalling.

The unborn child didn’t choose to die for “science.” It wouldn’t want to be a commodity to be bid on, cut up and parts harvested anymore than you or I would.

Of course, because it’s dependent on its mother, it isn’t given the choice.

How have we become so calloused?

Human life is valuable. It is our future and should be protected from conception until its natural death. —Sharon Salyer, Kila