Babies in the womb deserve to live as much as the rest of us

To the editor,

A great deal of thanks to New Hampshire lawmakers who recently voted to make abortions more difficult to arrange here in New Hampshire.

I offer a couple of stories to support the saving of lives before birth. Recently in a hospital doctors fought hard to save the life of a baby that was in distress still within the mother's womb, in the second trimester of her pregnancy. And success was there, a life was saved. At the same time, an abortionist put to death an unborn child taken from a mother who was also in her second trimester. One baby saved, one baby killed.

A woman went to see her doctor with what she believed to be a big problem. She was in the second trimester, about 25 weeks into the pregnancy. She told the doctor that with two kids at home already, one of them still under a year old, she didn't think she could cope with having another child. Couldn't the doctor do something to make conditions easier for her?Make her life more stress free? The doctor said she could kill one of the children, maybe the one not yet a year old. This would give her some rest time which would be beneficial for the growing baby inside her. She was horrified at the suggestion. The idea of murder appalled her. She said that she was only thinking of an abortion for the unborn, not murder. The doctor pointed out that murder is murder, even if the baby is in the womb.

In the second trimester of pregnancy, the baby has begun to move, kick, and respond to outside stimuli. The baby is a living, growing human, a person. What makes some people believe that abortion is okay? Those people ought to see the ultrasound picture of the developing 25-week old infant in the womb, a growing child deserving of life as much as the rest of us deserve to live. And don't forget, your mom chose life.

Abortion is murder. Life is precious.

Harry Mitchell

Laconia