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Final Say?

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Editor, Times-Union:

Alexander Clark and Elizabeth West claim that I can only read the word abortion in their sentence. For your information, I am not functionally illiterate and I do know how to read, thank you. And I do know what the word abortion means. And you people can't tell me that I don't either.And no, I was not attacking your personal character or jumping to conclusions. So stop making up situations that merely do not exist. This is just your own fabrications of the facts presented here.

And here you ask what if a woman's life were in great jeopardy during pregnancy and she was forced to make a decision between hers and the baby's? Let me answer that question, and let me start educating you people: First the woman should decide to preserve the baby's life first. That baby is a gift from God, and it's merely not ours to dispose of. And you people claim that you are not for abortion. And on the other side of the equation you say, you cannot condemn a woman for making her own choice even if it's in fear of losing her own life. And you people can't have it both ways. You either are for abortion or you are not.

And no, a woman has absolutely no choice at all in determining the fate of her child. It's up to God to determine who lives or dies, not us. And it's not up to us to make that distinction or determination. That baby is not some slice of meat that you just cut up and throw away. That child is a dignified human being and should be treated as such. That baby has a right to live, breathe and sustain its being. That woman's body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. And it must be respected at all times.

We shall not destroy what God has already created. Life begins at the moment of conception. The Catechism Of The Catholic Church 2270: Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the first moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person, among which is the inviolable right to every innocent being to life. The Catechism Of The Catholic Church 2271: Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed as either an end or a means,is gravely contrary to the moral law.

This is the Christmas Season. I don't want to debate you any further on this.

Merry Christmas to you both.

Michael Voisinet

Michigan City, via e-mail