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Message to ponder

Editor: I saw a bumper sticker on the back of a car that read “I was once a fetus too, stop abortions!”

Although the message made me smile, it also prompted me to think. The fellow whose vehicle it graces is a wrinkled Second World War veteran like me, and an ardent supporter of the right to life.

It is a question that is wrapped in religious beliefs, the future of us all and the burgeoning population of Earth. It also has much to do with the future of that fetus that is conceived.

For instance, do those who believe in a creative force, or God if you prefer, believe that the act of creation and conception of a child is the will of the Creator?  What if this conception is due to a drunken romp on the back seat of an automobile? If conception takes place, when does that creative force insert a soul into the body — at the instant of impregnation or at birth?

It is sensible to consider the future of an infant, as well.

Will that helpless little child enter a life of neglect without love and caring? Of course this is possible, but obviously the chances of this are slim if the expectant mother has decided on the termination of her infant’s birth.

The bumper sticker got me thinking and I don’t know the answer. Or does it lie in our beliefs and in our hearts?

Mike Harvey,

Langley