Abortion is also tragic

Re: “Tragic faces of history,” July 22 Life and Culture story

The exhibit you talk about in Sunday’s paper is indeed sad and heart wrenching, thinking about the lost 5,000 to 10,000 lives each year due to botched abortions. It is good to memorialize these women and the lives they could have and should have led. Not to be heartless, but these beautiful women, all of them, had a choice and chose poorly.

You know who doesn’t get memorialized are the million babies whose lives are taken each year by desperate women who think there is no other way when in reality, there always is another option.

These young lives are torn from their mothers wombs, suffering pain in the process, before they even have a chance to make their marks on the world. Why does nobody care about their little tiny lives? Because we can’t see their faces, nobody documents their tragic ending, nobody is thinking of the future they were robbed of, and we didn’t take the time, love, compassion, or patience to give them life, watch them blossom, and get to know their personalities.

Anyone who believes in God and heaven will meet these little angels someday, and then you can tell them face to face why their lives weren’t worth saving. And you will then see living proof how uniquely special each of those squandered lives are in the eyes of a loving God. Carol Summerlin, Littleton