May 14, 2019: Walls of wellbeing * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald

Letter to the Editor,

Walls of wellbeing

A class action suit should be filed on behalf of all preborn babies demanding that they be protected while they are growing inside the walls of their mother’s womb, the border wall protecting them from all invading forces both foreign and domestic. 

The assertion might be made that preborn babies are not entitled to the protection of the laws of this country because they are undocumented, because it is their birth certificate that makes them American citizens and qualifies them to receive all the protections guaranteed by this country. 

Undocumented citizens are seeking asylum in the United States because they are affirming that they are fleeing persecution and human rights violations, preborn babies facing the threat of abortion and born-alive babies facing the threat of infanticide, should be given the status of asylum seekers fighting for their lives not to be murdered.

Preborn babies should seek refuge in “sanctuary cities”. There are over 200 sanctuary cities in the U.S. and these could be used by preborn babies to thwart the enforcement of legal abortion and infanticide.

If babies are merely a “product of conception” the private property belonging to the mother, then under Eminent Domain, federal, state, and local governments may take private property and may regulate it by exercising their Police Power by enacting measures to preserve and protect the safety, health, and welfare of preborn babies inside the walls of their mother’s womb.

The government is required to provide just compensation to the owner of the private property to be taken. How much is a newborn baby worth? Some might say a baby is priceless and sadly others might say a baby is worthless! Let the free-market decide how much the government should pay the baby’s mother for her private property. Maybe the government could pay the cost of adoption?

If college students can demand “safe spaces” free of conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening conversations at all institutions of higher learning, then preborn babies should be entitled to their “safe spaces” free from being killed.

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

Del Rio, Texas