The Roe v. Wade decision put the argument for abortion where it belongs: in the conscience of the pregnant person.
My view is that in the very early stages of pregnancy, the embryo is only a fertilized egg and, as my physician husband used to say, "Mother Nature is very extravagant!" The time frame of the current federal restrictions really has it right by limiting abortion to the first trimester.
It should be up to the girl/woman as to how she feels in her heart whether she can commit to the rearing of a child or can release the child after birth.
The motto of Planned Parenthood is, "Every child a wanted child," and its work is primarily devoted to this cause by preventing against unwanted pregnancy; by educating teenagers to the responsibilities of parenthood; and by treating sexually transmitted diseases.
The folks who try to present a case for the fertilized egg as a person often neglect a concern for the real victims of unwanted pregnancy. They are the abused and neglected children agencies have difficulty placing in loving foster homes; the increasing numbers of unsupervised children becoming objects of predators; and the swelling rolls of single-parent families.
If the energy used by these so-called "pro-life" believers against the female's right to choose were instead directed toward stopping the killing of real people in the name of war, or were directed toward caring for the many unwanted children born because of scare tactics, the world would be a better place.
It is interesting to note the large numbers of males who insist on the right of government to intervene in what is clearly the right of a woman to choose.
— Eunice M. Koch, Ventura
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