City Newspaper Archives - 8/2008
ABORTION: Life begins at conception
Published on Aug 05, 2008
Christine Carrie Fien's statement that "no one knows when life begins" flies in the face of reality ("George Bush Wants to Get You Pregnant," July 23). She states further that "philosophers, scientists, philosophers, and religious thinkers have always struggled with the question of when life begins, at conception or at birth."
The Roman Catholic Church, which is over one billion strong and replete with doctors of all sorts, has issued a statement that life begins at conception. The Catholic clergy warn against sex outside the confines marriage and the abuses that can ensue.
Several years ago, the Buffalo News ran a special section on sex and abortion. In it, one female was quoted as stating, "I love the feeling of being pregnant, but it is impractical to bring the fetus to term so I abort it (them)." She was on her sixth at the time.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the renowned Nobel winner for literature, immigrated to the US and but later returned to the Soviet Union. The reason he gave was this: "America has lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong."
EUGENE B. HALECKI, IRONDEQUOIT
