April 9, 2019: Stop the insanity * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald
Letter
to the Editor,
Stop
the insanity
The
death penalty for convicted criminals is being outlawed while abortion rights
are being expanded and innocent babies are being executed. Where is the justice
in that?
The
Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom signed an executive order
placing an indefinite moratorium on capital punishment, saying it goes against
Californians’ values, yet in 2012 and 2016 there were unsuccessful voter
efforts to end the death penalty.
California
joins 18 states that have banned executing those who were deemed by judge and
jury of their peers to merit a death sentence.
Yet state after state is
expanding abortion rights to include non-doctors who can perform abortions,
denying protection and medical care for babies who survive abortion, repealing
all abortion facility regulations and forcing all hospitals and health care
professionals to perform abortions with no exception for religious or
conscience objections, and most barbaric of all - infanticide.
The
Governor noted the death penalty is used mostly against the poor and people of
color. It should also be noted that a disproportionate number of babies from poor
and people of color are aborted.
The
California Governor stated that although he is fully cognizant that victims
might have an issue with this, he stated, “We cannot advance the death penalty
in an effort to soften the blow of what happened to the victims”.
The
victims who were murdered by those who incurred the death sentence will in no way
“soften the blow” by having them executed, but those who are left behind to
mourn their deaths will have justice served.
No
politician will ever say that we cannot advance abortion in an effort to “soften
the blow” of what happened to the victims of rape and incest.
In
one case the criminals who have been found guilty of such heinous crimes that
have been sentenced to the death penalty are allowed to live, in another case the
babies who are innocent and not guilty of anything are forced to die.
Criminals
live and babies die.
It doesn’t make any sense.
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
Del Rio, Texas