To the editor:

The late Jesse Jackson declared in an article he wrote for Right to Life News in 1977.  “Race and poverty are dimensions of the life question, but discussions about abortion have brought the issue into focus in a much sharper way. How we will respect and understand the nature of life itself is the over-riding moral issue, not of the Black race, but of the human race.”

“Life is the highest good and therefore you fight for life, using means consistent with that end,” Jackson wrote. “Life is the highest human good not on its own naturalistic merits, but because life is supernatural, a gift from God. Therefore, life is the highest human good because life is sacred.”

“Advocates of taking life prior to birth do not call it killing or murder; they call it abortion,” he pointed out. “They further never talk about aborting a baby because that would imply something human. Rather they talk about aborting the fetus. Fetus sounds less than human and therefore can be justified.”

Jan. 22 marked the 53rd anniversary of Roe versus Wade which gave the medical community the power to legally perform abortions. The body count is now over 65 million since 1973.

Why is it that the press will flood us with pictures and verbiage of ICE activities while at the same time, doing all they can to stifle images and verbiage regarding the 2,000+ abortions?

I am not saying ICE should not be covered, but why do those innocent children get no press?

Phil  Drietz

Delhi