You wouldn’t know, after reading Bill Nemitz’s Jan. 16 column (“Breaking their silence on abortion – bless them every one”), that it is actually possible both to hold pro-life convictions and also to empathize with the tragic reasons behind why many women choose to procure an abortion.
Although I could never agree with the ultimate choice to end, prematurely, the life of an unborn child, it doesn’t logically follow that the moral assessment of an action implies the judgment of a person.
This position might shock the Rev. Jane Field, executive director of the Maine Council of Churches, who, in Nemitz’s column, accused pro-lifers of only “shaming, blaming and judging those who seek or provide abortions.”
But it shouldn’t.
Every single day, pro-lifers at over 3,000 crisis pregnancy centers around America help expectant mothers by paying for diapers, rent and food so they are able to make reproductive choices free of external pressures.
When was the last time your local Planned Parenthood clinic did that?
Ryan Bilodeau
Kennebunk
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