Historic moments

Dear editor:

January 22, 1973, was no ordinary day in history. News ran rampant. A ceasefire in Vietnam was just one day away. The U.S. Ambassador to Haiti was kidnapped. A deadly siege at a Brooklyn sporting goods store ended. The world's worst airplane crash (up to that time) occurred in Nigeria. Geor ge Foreman defeated Joe Frazier in a boxing match, in Kingston, Jamaica Former President Lyndon Johnson died suddenly at his Texas ranch. Alexander Onassis, son of the famed billionaire, was fatally injured in a plane crash. And there was at least one other event that day, a ruling fran the US Suprene Court called Roe vs. Wade. This ruling opened the way for legal abortions in America, causing Jan. 22 not only to be a famous day in history, but a blot on our history.

Since that fateful day 35 years ago, an estimated 30-50 million living American babies have been slaughtered. If the Right to Life group and other organizations are correct, this number equals the amount of people killed during World War II. This is an horrendous massacre, genocide, mass murder on par with that committed by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and other despots.

I believe that on that day of the ruling, all respect for human life in America was lost. Since that day, we have seen the likes of schools and workplaces exploding in violence, crime against strangers running rampant, domestic abuse soar, horrible incidents of child abuse, kidnapping and murder, and even assisted suicide. When the Supreme Court, said it was OK to kill living, breathing babies, everyone took it upon themselves to say killing is OK. Kill, kill, kill has become a 4-letter word and part of American culture all because of this ruling.

No President, No Congress, no Justices have succeeded in getting abortions banned like they were before Jan. 22, 1973. None will likely succeed. Abortion has became part of our lives and is probably here to stay, one more violent, hateful part of American history.

About all we can do is pray for the little ones and pray people choose adoption over abortion and abstention over premarital sex.

David Shipp

Nevada