I agree with the opinion that women do have “rights” over their body and decision making. However, I completely disagree that such a decision has anything to do with “Religion.” It is a matter of “timing” with their decision. That moment occurs before you are intimate and initiate the possibility of having a baby. Once conception has occurred and the natural [proved by science] nine-month pregnancy begins, it’s too late to play the — “My body my decision” card.

At that point it’s called the murder of an innocent child. One’s lack of planning and planned protection should not constitute an emergency termination of the life of a child because one let their passion control their body “in the heat of the moment.” There is no violation of a woman’s right to exercise autonomy over their body. It’s called natural consequence of behavior. Nothing to do with the Reformation, the Bible, superstitions/fantasies of Religion or Bob Jones University. No one is being withheld of a basic human right, except the child who is aborted is being deprived of a life. It is totally irrelevant to cite religion as a reference base for abortion.

STEPHEN ALLEN KNOLL

Hayden