The Sacramento Bee
Saturday, March 11, 2006

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Measure of Life

The South Dakota abortion ban strikes at the heart of the abortion debate. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that it didn't know when human life began. That ignorance supposedly justified legalizing abortion. The court's 1857 decision promoting slavery was also founded on ignorance. The South Dakota law cites scientific and medical evidence that life begins at conception.

Who knows what the court’s makeup will be when this or a similar law gets there? But if the court recognizes the scientific and medical evidence about life’s beginning it must reverse Roe.

Planned Parenthood and other abortion supporters will certainly challenge the law. They consistently oppose providing women with information about fetal pain, abortion risks and alternatives to abortion. Their claims to be pro-woman and pro-choice are lies.

Jennifer M. Le, RN, Citrus Heights
Executive director, California Nurses for Ethical Standards

Relighting the Lamp