Advocate alternatives

With all the interest in the Planned Parenthood videos and activities, has anyone mentioned the fact that “fetus” is a Latin word and means “little one”? So when talking about a fetus, one is talking about a little human person living and growing in its mother’s womb. It should be a safe place.

I agree that a woman has rights and should be able to manage her own health and body, but a pregnancy brings into being a new person who also has rights and its own health and body. The mother should have made different decisions before becoming pregnant if she didn’t want a child.

The definition of murder is “the intentional killing of one human being by another.” Pregnancy is no excuse for murder. Shame on the doctors, nurses and friends of Planned Parenthood. There are many other options and services for an unwilling mother to consider. Planned Parenthood doesn’t seem to advocate these alternative choices. Is it really about women’s health and rights, or about money and depopulation after all?

Mary Tarnowski

Spokane