To the editor:

Prior to the election, Mary Loveland wrote about the Catholic Church’s teaching concerning voting and her personal position on abortion. She stated: “The right to choose protects my right to make decisions that reflect my belief about when life begins.”

When does life begin? Abortionist William Harrison says, “The real issue is not when life begins, because that’s established at the junction of a sperm and an egg.” (So much for a personal belief about life’s beginning.) He continues: “Here’s the important question: Is it morally meaningful life?” Do these living babies have moral value? This has been answered by authority much higher than Dr. Harrison’s. In Genesis 9:6, God declared the sanctity of all human life. Both God and science have already answered these questions. Both these objective truths are being ignored.

Ms. Loveland and Dr. Harrison attempt to assign value to a person’s life, relative to his age and their subjective opinions. The Catholic Church categorizes age under “accidental and acquired differences” along with gender, race, health, wealth and status. None of these determine a person’s value. If a man’s race doesn’t affect his moral value, why can his developmental stage?

That’s what happens when “freedom” ignores truth. According to Pope John Paul II, when someone gives himself over to relativism, he pursues “an illusory freedom, apart from truth itself.”

Our life’s worth is not based on someone’s opinion. If we establish these “freedoms,” based on our subjective feelings, we will eventually become victim to our own subjectivity. Heard of euthanasia?

Sarah Heschmeyer,

Eudora