Donald Trump has constantly bragged about appointing pro-life Supreme Court justices, resulting in getting rid of Roe v. Wade and transferring the decision about abortion to the states. He has claimed this was what the majority of Americans favored. Quite the opposite. CNN’s polling found only 34% approving with 65% opposed; a result remaining basically unchanged over time.
Laws in several states now make it illegal to abort from the moment of conception; some even in the case of rape and incest. Other states ban abortion prior to six weeks before most women realize they’re pregnant. Doctors are declining to treat pregnant women in need of immediate medical attention out of the fear of being arrested. Pregnant women fear prosecution for traveling to seek an abortion in another state where it’s still legal.
Claiming the taking of a human life by aborting shortly after conception is nonsense. Starting with the initial stages of conception from zygote to blastocyst to embryo, even after formation of the first two phases, the initial embryo at four weeks is only about .04 inches long, the size of a poppy seed.
A potential human life is a more accurate description; no different than an individual sperm or ovum cell represents a potential human life. Extremely far removed from the destruction of an actual human being.
The only reasonable solution to this debacle would be to eliminate state control and transfer it to the federal government. Reasonable federal legislation might allow uninhibited abortion up to 15 weeks (less than in Roe v. Wade); a time limit for which over 90% of abortions have taken place in the past.
Raymond A. Hult, Bountiful
