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I would like to briefly address the president of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force, Brenda Hammond and her letter to the editor about the human right to a healthy environment. I would have to say I agreed with many of the points she brought out and being good stewards with what we have been given charge over. She also pointed to what Nancy Gerth said back on Jan. 31 that over one million children die each year as a result of air and water pollution alone, very sad. Healthy environments are critical to our well-being. Easy to agree on, right (it’s the mode of how we accomplish these things where the disagreements begin).

I’m curious to know where Brenda, Nancy and members of the BCHRTF stand on the environment of a mother’s womb where a helpless baby (aka human being) is ripped out and murdered at a rate of over 800,000 per year. Or since the passage of Roe v. Wade (1973) over 57 million babies murdered in the USA. Talk about the lack of human rights. Talk about a law discriminating devastatingly against those with the least of means. How about we join together in acknowledging that the most important place we should start in human rights is by ridding our world of the culture of death that is the abortion (murder) of millions of babies (humans, made in the image of God) each year. How about we push to have that added as an article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? How much more basic of a human right is there than the life of an unborn baby?

CHARLES POPE

Sandpoint