Initiative 128

Dear Editor,

Amidst all the positions Montanans will be voting on in November - is Initiative 128 that would amend the Montana Constitution “to expressly provide a right to make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion. It would prohibit the government from denying or burdening the right to abortion before fetal viability.”

Science has shown life begins at conception, and like Tim Sheehey states, “abortion is murder.” To end innocent life is nothing less than murder. We grimace at school shootings, and yet allow mothers to end their own child’s innocent life.

The issue of abortion has NOTHING TO DO WITH A MOTHER’S RIGHT TO HER OWN BODY.... We simply cannot deny that sonograms show another body within the mother’s body.

Statistics have shown that the ‘need to end this life’ due to rape, incest, endangering the mother’s or a baby’s birth defect is less than .0003 percent of the time.... which can be interpreted as ALMOST NEVER.....

It’s time we stop hiding behind the smoke screen of a ‘woman’s rights’ and defend WHAT IS RIGHT.... Adoption has been, and forever will always be - the right choice for a mother and her unwanted baby, and this is a choice the baby and mother can both live with....

Sincerely,

Lindie Gibson

Livingston, Mont.