What is humane?

Pro-life groups supporting “personhood” amendments display no understanding regarding rights and a remarkably short-sighted societal view.

Abortions will never stop. There is no way to stop it, leading again to women going to emergency rooms, with some dying of septic shock from self-induced abortions. While no one argues a man’s right to govern his own body, pro-life groups reject this basic right for women, enslaving them for their anatomy.

In this country, there are over 100,000 children awaiting adoption. Many born at the behest of “personhood” will be unwanted by their parent/parents or unprepared for. The pro-life movement would swell these numbers to hundreds of thousands or more without any plan regarding their care, how the system will be ramped up to provide for them or who will pay for it.

This begs the question of what is “humane”: forcing children to be born into poverty on the streets without support from an overburdened system, leading to increases in crime, or allowing a woman to make her own decisions regarding something that cannot yet exist outside her womb?

Roe v. Wade may be an imperfect law, but it is the best solution we have for this thorny issue.

Joe Lang

Spokane