We must protect the rights of the innocent

Jan. 22 marked the 35 years since the legalization of abortion (Roe vs. Wade). Upwards of 40 million abortions have been performed since then. This case was a fraud and the woman who was the party in this case is working to reverse it. It is a clear issue; medical monitoring equipment has clearly shown babies being killed in an abortion.

David Kupelian writes in "The Marketing of Evil" over the last few decades our nation embraced the notion that total sexual freedom without marriage, without restriction of any kind, is a right — an entitlement.

We've been seduced in separating sexuality from its God-ordained purpose — the sanctified union between husband and wife, within the protective confines of marriage, from which issues the most precious of all things — our children. Today in America, the unborn baby is the obvious victim of the abortion holocaust. But there are other victims. Vulnerable young women are deceived by manipulative counselors and unscrupulous health professionals into believing their unborn babies are not human, only to find out too late in the recovery room or shortly thereafter that they ended the lives of their own children.

With all the noise about human rights today, the sound pales in comparison to the right to life given to us by our creator. If we fail to protect the lives of the helpless will God continue to bless us? Let us put an end to abortion.

STEVE TANNER

Bonners Ferry