How are we different?

Re: Women have the right to safe abortions, but anti-abortion activists have rights, too — Oct. 7

I am responding to three items that appeared in the same issue of The Record, all of which seem to be connected.

In regard to Luisa D’Amato’s column about safe zones around abortion clinics, I feel I must bring to the attention of readers the “elephant in the room” — the “baby” elephant in the room — the one nobody seems to want to look at, or wants to talk about, or even call a “baby.” The baby in its mother’s womb is not safe during your “safe” abortions. The baby dies.

A story regarding the new National Holocaust Monument, “Holocaust plaque that left out Jews in for rewrite,” unveiled in Ottawa by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, reveals that the plaque on the monument is being rewritten after failing to mention Jews or the Jewish people. That seems like quite an oversight. Are we really that forgetful?

Just above that story was one with the headline, “Doctor assisted deaths on the rise.” The title tells the story.

It may be coincidence or just an old man’s wandering mind, but I see a connection and must ask: aren’t we Canadians knee-deep in that same “death culture” the Nazis advocated and lived out? Why is human life being attacked so vigorously in this country? How are we so different from the Nazis and those others, not in uniform, who supported them — many just by looking away? How are we so different from them? Len Solomon Kitchener