LETTERS: ABORTION IS A MORAL ISSUE

To the editor:

On March 11 a letter to the editor written by Bill Zellmer was right on the point when he said aborition wasn't a political issue, but he was dead wrong to say it wasn't a moral issue. Abortion is without question the taking of life. Zellmer appears to be a pro-abortion Republican who is concerned that the abortion issue will split the Republican Party. I too consider myself a Republican, but I consider the taking of life too important an issue to brush aside for the sake of unity of a politica group.

Think back to Nazi Germany when Hitler was in power. Concentration camps existed, and Jews were murdered by the thousands. This act of genocide was legal under German law. But was this right? At the Nurembourg trials German war criminals were indeed prosecuted and punished even though they acted within the law. How? They were found guilty because they violated a higher law. God's law. "Thou shalt not kill."

Zellmer and othr pro-abortion supporters shouldn't be so shortsighted as to escalate man-made laws above natural law, God's law. In time, I believe people will come to their senses and see what is now being done legally under U.S. law in abortion clinics across the country does, in fact, violate a higher law

KATHY McCLEELAN

Sikeston