The editorial of May 18, “Our View: Abortion rights under attack in Maine and nation,” reprinted here in The Sun (Westerly, Rhode Island) on May 25, displays the ignorance and error of the Editorial Board.

Cremation or burial are required by law for all other people. Presently, most remains after abortions are hauled away by a garbage service. What’s wrong with requiring dignified burial or cremation, as is the case for all other human beings? Or does the Editorial Board not realize these people are human?

Would members of the Editorial Board prefer garbage disposal of their own children? Or their grandmothers? Requiring dignified disposition of bodies after death by abortion would merely bring the abortion industry into compliance with ordinary practice after the death of a person. It would also help prevent Frankensteinian practices of illicit experimentation and abuse of human bodies after abortion.

The horrors brought on by Roe v. Wade (ever recognized by scholars as an unsettled and misguided problematic ruling) and the damage done to women, men, the culture (culture of death, one might say) after 60 million American abortions, in 48 years, really needs to end for the good of all.

Folks seeking healing after an abortion might seek out reconciliation with a minister or counselor. The best and happiest is to give life, not death, to one’s child.

Steve Sullivan
Westerly, R.I.

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