Basic right

To the editor:

In the past, when a child was born to a mother who could not care for it, the child was put up for adoption. I always thought this was a good balance; those people who couldn’t have a baby could adopt. In the past, many families helped raise the child of their unwed teen mother.

It is too easy to abort babies. I look at this as a “take the easy way out” solution. We are not teaching our children and society that life is precious and not to be taken for granted. We are not teaching our children consequences of their actions. Having sex has consequences, and to face them builds character and moral convictions.

Providing children with a good education, a good family and home means we may have to “give up” a little of that money we as a nation spend on recreation. Are we not still a moral nation? If we lose our core beliefs, what will we become?

To be pro-life is not difficult to understand; it means the basic right of each individual to live, that is all. Life begins at conception. Anyone wants to argue that, take it up with God. He made the rules. When we try to change those rules we cause havoc and pain for all.

Fran Johnson,

Lawrence