I was pro-choice for most of my life. During this period, I felt abortion was a delicate issue to be decided between a woman, her God and her doctor. I realized I was wrong and began changing my mind about 20 years ago.

I would like everyone to stop and think for a moment. With the level of sex education taught in our schools, the number of birth control products available and the effectiveness of the morning after pill, for those who get caught up in the heat of the moment, there should be no reason for an abortion, except to save the life of the mother and this should be exceedingly rare.

To a point, I will agree that a woman should be in control of her body. However, once she becomes pregnant that choice is no longer hers to make for she has become a sacred vessel for a new life, and it becomes her responsibility to nourish, shelter and deliver this child, even if it is inconvenient and uncomfortable.

What ever happened to old-fashioned common sense, responsibility and self-control? There is an old axiom “If you play, you may have to pay.” Why should the unborn have to pay with their lives?

Over 50 million abortions have been preformed in America since 1973. Let that number sink in. Fifty million is twice the population of America’s 10 largest cities combined.

Over the past two decades far more black babies have been aborted in New York than have been born alive. Did you know more than four times more black women have abortions than white women? It appears that black women are using abortion as their preferred type of birth control. However, I wonder if the problem could go much deeper.

Could abortion be serving as a type of genocide? From my research, Planned Parenthood was founded on racist principals. Its founding purpose was to prevent the colored and those with lower IQs and physical deformities from reproducing. Considering the number of black abortions in New York and other inner cities, could this founding concept still be in play?

Many reading the above statements will claim it’s just right-wing propaganda. My response is to please Google Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, and read at lest 10 postings from different sources.

Under many new state laws an abortion can now be preformed while a mother is in labor; in fact, some presidential candidates are proposing that should a mother so desire, a newly born baby can be made comfortable and left to die. This is murder.

Doctors providing abortion services have all taken the Hippocratic oath which states “First do no harm.” It is very obvious this oath does not apply to the unborn.

I am appalled that our church leaders are not speaking out with clarion voices on this obvious disregard of the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill.”

This is not a religious issue for me but a moral one.

When did life stop being sacred?

Don Sorensen

Albert Lea