I commend Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes for his courage and fortitude in condemning abortion and for appealing to voters not to vote for an abortion rights supporter, Democrat Barack Obama (“Jesus wouldn’t vote for Obama, Keyes says,” Metro, Sept. 8).
Today, in many people’s consciences, the gravity of abortion has become obscured.
The acceptance of abortion in popular thinking, in behavior and even in law is a telling sign of an extremely dangerous moral crisis–that is becoming more and more incapable of distinguishing between good and evil.
The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder.
We need now more than ever to have the courage to look the truth in the eye and to call things by their proper name without yielding to convenient compromises or to the temptation of self-deception.
To claim the right to abortion and to recognize that right in law means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom.
