October 26, 2018

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We have zero rights without right to life

In the Oct. 19th issue of The Criterion, a letter to the editor included a significant logic fault. Under the pretense of offering pro-birth as an alternative to pro-life, the writer is proposing a commendable social agenda to help people among us who were not aborted, but nothing to the unborn who are killed in their mother’s womb. How can that be?

Without the right to life, there are no other rights. Ensure life first, and then help with a fair wage, good education, etc. We must first support the right to life if any of us ever eventually seek to help our fellow man.

Pope St. John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical, “Evangelium Vitae” defines the right to life. Its primacy is historic in the Catholic Church, and only after recognizing that right can we fulfill our obligation to help those in need.

Help God’s creation in the womb, and then help his human creatures among us. If we are allowed to have a beating heart and blood in our veins, then why take this from babies in the womb by stopping their heart during abortion?

If we, as living humans, don’t stand up for the living unborn, then we are like zebras that just go back to grazing while lions feast on one of their own nearby.

Stand up for life, and then stand up for your fellow humans. It can only be life and then justice, not either one or the other.

- Paul Leddy | Columbus

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