Re: “Maine Voices: Maine should legalize late-term abortions” (June 5):

We need to flood the governor’s office with letters regarding this column and include a thumbs-down “No!” Maine does not need to permit taking the lives of our children this way. We will certainly influence the nation if we allow late-term abortions. We don’t need blood on our hands.

Also, anyone who takes this issue beyond the opinion of the author, Lida Holst, should be swiftly challenged. Her job as a social worker in our state should be in question. Her focus should be on the welfare of families in Maine, not on suggesting that we inflict this type and degree of unimaginable harm and pain on infants in the womb through partial-birth abortion for the sake of financial convenience.

I am glad to see that abortion is not easy to obtain in our state. What a woman cannot afford, she should not do to begin with. If she becomes pregnant there are plenty of families who would love to adopt. Compassion begins in the garden of the womb.

The Declaration of Independence was written with posterity in mind: namely, the pursuit of life and liberty that are essential to a thriving, free state and nation – not encouraging youth to take lives of their own offspring in such horrific ways.

Our government never should have approved abortion to begin with. The influence on generations of young minds is now a humanitarian crisis and travesty of justice.

Laurie Knight

Bridgton

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