Consider the following scenario: a prematurely born child weighing only a couple of pounds is being treated in a hospital's neonatal care unit. There appears to be a very high likelihood the baby will grow and develop into a healthy, normal child. What would happen if someone on the staff removed the baby from the neonatal care facility, killed it and sold its tissues? This act would be viewed internationally as barbaric and loathsome.

Perhaps the leaders of the Planned Parenthood organization can explain how that scenario differs from the act of taking a fetus that has every chance of growing and developing into a healthy, normal child from its mother's womb and selling its tissues.

Planned Parenthood's work providing education and assistance to women may be laudable. But many reasonable people find that those activities can be justifiably supported by tax dollars while the same group's termination of fetal life and subsequent sale of body tissues seem reprehensible. Let's not confuse these two activities.

James Croft

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