A Matter of War

Abortion and wars have two major common factors - the love of money and lack of value for human life.  Men, women, children; people of all ages, races, and backgrounds are fodder for the killing machine of war.  People gather and march against war, but all to often we see that in one hand they hold tightly a sign saying "No More War!"  In the other hand they hold tightly a sign that states "Pro Choice," as they wage war for the right to murder unborn children.  This seems like an oxymoron to me.  My question over and over is how can we differentiate between the two?  How can we say dropping bombs and killing thousands of innocent people is evil, yet say that murdering unborn children is choice?  Could not those nodding in approval of abortion justify the horrors of war by the same reasoning used in killing the unborn? 

Following is a letter to the editor in our local newspaper today (http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/article_6f9e5abc-56a7-11e0-af31-001cc4c03286.html), which spewed venomous insults at those of us who would defend the unborn; those of us who believe that the child, too, has a right to choose.  Below that is my response to that letter:

Letter to the editor:
Law limits women's reproductive rights
When Republican legislators in South Dakota - who have run this state for decades - found that they couldn't get away with writing laws to murder abortion providers (HB 1171), they decided to kill womanhood, instead.
To do this, Gov. Daugaard signed HB 1217 which essentially takes away a woman's reproductive rights, her civil rights and her personhood. Unlike corporations - which can live forever and feel free to make decisions about how to reproduce itself endlessly, or not - she can not be deemed a like "person" with the freedom to reproduce or not.
When a legislature writes bills to deny half of its citizens their human rights, but gives those rights to soulless and speechless financial institutions/corporations, some of us know that these Republican, Christian and mostly male fanatics have gone too far.
There is no hope that South Dakota will become Wisconsin, but the chances that we may finally vote these nitwits out of office is becoming more of a possibility.

My Reply:

"It truly would be so convenient if the issues of abortion were all about a woman's choice, but they are not.  The problem lies in the fact that while a woman demands a right to abortion; she cannot do so without denying the right of the unborn child to live.  Unlike financial institutions/corporations, the unborn child is not without a soul.  Unfortunately, however, they are quite speechless, which is something that the abortion industry monopolizes on. 

Until we stop the murder of the unborn and acknowledge their value endowed by their Creator; until we allow them the right to live, we will never successfully teach our children the value of human life at any other stage.  The value of human life is not relative to how one 'feels' about another." 

I have no desire to engage in venomous "word-wars" with anyone, but nor can I simply ignore such vehement attacks, which completely twist the truth of the matter.