In response to the title story “N. Idaho Group push anti-abortion proposal.” It could have easily been titled: “N. Idaho group push anti-murder proposal.” If one reads the actual proposed Idaho ballot initiative they can see clearly that all it does is fairly treats preborn babies the same as born babies under Idaho statute.

One can claim outlawing mothers and assassins from killing born babies as a radical idea, but why should simply outlawing mothers and abortionists from killing unborn babies be any different?

What does science teach us in our biology textbooks as to when life begins?

Does life begin at conception with a separate DNA genetic code?

If life begins at conception, then to snuff out that life, is that not killing that which is alive?

How should we define what murder is? Do not our own Idaho State laws already include fetus and embryos as living human beings to be protected in the case of killing a pregnant woman?

If abortion is not murder, then what is it?

Isn’t making exceptions to unborn baby murder the same type of logic as the Nazis making exceptions as to what humans they wanted to murder in World War II?

If a mother gets to judge if her child is worth living, why only when they are unborn?

If murder is the killing of an innocent human being and the unborn baby is an innocent human being, then how else can one define killing an innocent unborn child other than simply murder?

ERIC SEELEY

Spirit Lake