Devaluing life

November 1, 2016

Washington, Iowa

To the Editor:

I read in the Friday, Oct. 28, edition of The Washington Evening Journal that one of the candidates for U.S. Representative was in favor of what is known as assisted suicide. I can?t express how disappointed I was to read this. How have we come so far as a society to devalue life so much that we kill millions of our children in the womb and now a candidate here in Washington is openly supporting the killing outside of the womb? It ?s no secret that abortion, since Roe v. Wade in 1973, has gotten absolutely ridiculous to where we now have a presidential candidate who is suggesting abortion should be available at any time during a pregnancy for any reason with no regard to the child. So my question is this ? where would this stop?

So, the government would help people who may or may not die from an illness and then eventually a big business comes in like planned parenthood to profit off this and then eventually you have the government ?assisting? people with their deaths with taxpayer money with no apparent illness. Think this is all just ridiculous talk? I?m very confident that the people who supported abortion 43 years ago had no idea of the horror stories that would be happening now in the operating rooms and the shady backroom deals that are taking place.

I will also give you a well-known story of two people; both had Stage 4 brain cancer. One, Brittany Maynard, chose to move to Oregon and chose assisted suicide. The other, J.J. Hanson, chose to fight, and he won and now tells everybody of his heroic story and speaks out against assisted suicide.

I ask you, I beg you to turn away from these barbaric ways of killing our own and cherish every moment of life because any and every moment can have the biggest and greatest of impacts on ourselves as well as others. This Tuesday, no matter what party you affiliate with, I beg you to choose LIFE, it is so precious and so rare and such a gift from God.

Sincerely,

Aaron Carpenter