To the Editor:

Chris LaRose’s letter (“Animal Lovers Ignore Cruelty of Abortion” Mar. 2-8) illustrates the very same attitude that makes so many young unmarried women choose abortion. They believe they’re doing “the humane thing”, as Chris called it, to “end his [or her] suffering.” The suffering in the baby’s future, that is, and not necessarily the mother’s own present suffering.

Many of us say we see abortion as cruelty, but fewer of us recognize that it often happens as the result of cruelty. Ours is a world where many men treat women in just the same way as most people treat a public toilet – convenient when you need it, but does one really need to have a continued relationship with it? Our society produces more of these dysfunctional men every year.

Little human beings are caught in the cross-fire, and the “end his suffering” idea would come to mind, as Chris has illustrated in reference to the goose. If a distraught and abandoned mother believes that a good and gentle God will take her baby in His arms and do what the man in her life failed to do – to love and to protect – is she to be blamed for allowing the thought to cross her mind?

If you work to make a world in which an abandoned mother can bear, nurse, and stay at home to raise her own baby, making it possible for her to work from home to support herself and her child for a lifetime, then little families will thrive and love will fill the huge space that abortion used to take up.

If you work to make a society that will raise more men that can actually be men, you might just save the world.

Pat Biggs, Canton