Supporting Life is Not Crazy

To The Editor:

I would like to respond to another letter to the editor printed in the July 1 edition, titled “Turn Your Clocks Back Fifty Years.”

The first thing I would like to address is that the writer incorrectly declared that most Americans wanted to keep Roe as the law of the land. One poll stated that 64% of Americans did not want Roe overturned (a number closer to half than most.) A Gallup poll stated that only 47% of Americans think abortion is morally acceptable (again closer to half than most). So no, most people did not want to keep Roe, in fact closer to half of us wanted it overturned.

In regards to the writer’s assertion that marginalized folks are being left out or not taken seriously, I would whole heartedly agree – although we may disagree on who we are calling marginalized – I would stand with the 625,346 (CDC) or 930,160 (Guttmacher) babies aborted in 2019 and 2020 respectively. And the millions since Roe came into being. My “head is spinning, my heart is broken” for them, and so thankful that whether we would say the clock has been “turned back” or not, the time is always now for lives to be saved – and that will be the marginalized babies who have been left out, more accurately stated, murdered. I do not believe “the world is flat” nor see myself or half of our country as “crazies” for upholding life for the unborn babies as was insinuated in this article.

But I do agree with the statement that the writer concluded her article with: “the truth will set you free” (Quote by Jesus in John 8:31-32). Roe overturned does not now give babies the right to life, they have always had it from Life Himself, Jesus, Who indeed sets us free in truth.

Kelsey Kelly

Muldoon