Letter to the Editor: The Holocaust in America

Kitty Discher

Age 20

One of the most heinous crimes in our country is the sadistic holocaust of defenseless infants. Many of our citizens appear to think this reasonable. I will briefly point out the ludicrousness and ghastliness of this practice.

One validation often claimed: size. According to the pro-death community, a fetus isn’t a human because of the size. Following this logically a forty-five-year-old is more human than a two-year-old.

Another argument is the level of development. Some suggest that because a fetus isn’t fully developed, it isn’t a human being. The conclusion: a five-year-old girl is less of a person than an eighteen-year-old girl because the five-year-old has not fully developed a woman’s body.

The location of the baby is another point pro-death advocates use. Apparently eight inches down the birth canal makes a difference. Using this irrational argument, deployed astronauts are no longer human because of changed locations when they were deployed.

The next justification for murder is this: a fetus can’t survive unaided. Astronauts can’t survive in outer space without their life support. Disabled individuals are dependent upon both others and machines. Obviously they are still human. They are not brutally dismembered. They don’t not have their brains scrambled “solid blobs of tissue.”

My statements may sound ridiculous, but they are fully logical. Those who argue for abortion are grasping desperately for straws. I maintain that a baby inside the womb is every bit as human as a baby outside the womb. The Holocaust in America must stop.