I checked out a book about alligators from the Butler Area Public Library. Three photos from researchers showed the developing alligator embryo inside the alligator egg. There is no doubt that the alligator egg embryo will become a real, live alligator with some nutrition and sunshine.

So, I have pictures of an alligator egg. It contains an alligator embryo. In this instance, alligator embryo equals alligator.

Look at a human embryo. A human embryo does not equal a human being. No, a human embryo equals a "blob of tissue."

What a lie we have created and repeated over and over again. We can lie to ourselves and label a human embryo a "blob of tissue." We continue to believe a lie.

I am trembling for my generation. My generation has allowed the legal killing of babies in the mother's womb to continue unabated. My generation will be in the hands of those who will be deciding on our "end of life" health care issues.

Protection under the U.S. Constitution is denied our most helpless citizens. When my generation is older and helpless, what will become of us?

A quote from Mother Teresa:

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts — a child — as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters.

"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign."