We wish to comment on the opinion of Senator Jeff Wentworth, concerning his column in the Hays Free Press, February 23, 2011 issue. He states “Senate Bill 16, a bill that would require a woman, who has already made the incredibly personal decision to have an abortion, to view a sonogram and listen to any heartbeat that may exist, is an unwarranted intrusion into that woman’s private life.”
At the end of his discourse, he states that he “casts his vote against the bill in order to …have state government stay out of their private lives.”
He is overlooking the fact that the proposed law would suggest that the pregnant woman take another look at what she is doing: Killing an innocent life. The sonogram would show the movement and heartbeat of the unborn child, proving that the fetus is an alive human being, and to abort the child is an act of murder.
Legislators, in particular, should be preserving human life, which is guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson: “…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed – that whenever any form of government, becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it...”
Therefore, to sum up, the right of survival of a child in the womb is guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution of the United States, and aborting this child is not a privilege of the mother to decide if the child should live. William J. Bennett states, ”If we hold these liberties to be gifts from God, we realize the moral duty to respect, preserve and defend those rights for others.”
If we cannot depend on legislators to defend human life, on whom can we depend?
Clifford and Elizabeth Mary Williams
Kyle/Manchaca
