In response to Ed De La Garza's column Monday, "Nothing Like a Little Acid," I find it stunning that an educated young man such as De La Garza would base his views on a tough philosophical issue such as abortion on the action of political zealots.
He is wrong in suggesting that pro-lifers don't understand the parallel with the death penalty. Abortion is the state-sanctioned murder of an innocent human life; lethal injection is not. De La Garza is far too cynical of adoption.
Adoption is a beautiful thing: the only decision that leaves a mother without a lifetime of regret.
Attacks on abortion clinics should never be tolerated. Abortion, however, is the second-largest stain on American history.
Jonathan Matthew Mower,
senior economics majoR
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