To the Editor:

In response to the letter denouncing the activities of pro-lifers in The Times Record Aug. 7 by Julia Kahrl (“Do abortion foes ‘love thy neighbor’?, Page A6), it never ceases to amaze me how non-Christians will attempt to chastise Chistians by using God’s word. The Bible is not an eclectic book whereby an individual can pick and choose what to or not to accept.

People love to quote, ‘Love your neighbor’, Matt. 22:39; while ignoring the 6th Commandment, “You shall not murder,” Exodus 20:13.

Another Scripture reference conveniently ignored is Leviticus 20:1-3, any Israelite who gives children to Molech must be put to death … “he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.”

Molech was a false god of the Canaanites to which the temple prostitutes would offer full-term live-delivered as well as aborted babies as human sacrifices. This entailed the keeping of a furnace burning constantly which these women would toss their innocent unwanted children into. Is not saving a neighbor from death showing them love?

Jesus also said, when parents brought their children to Him and His disciples rebuked them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,” Matt. 19:14. How could a person hinder an innocent child any more than by killing one before birth?

Ms. Kahrl talks about inflicting emotional pain on clinic visitors, yet ignores the emotional pain inflicted on unsuspecting mothers and mental and physical pain inflicted on innocent victims. I would like to remind everyone of the atrocities we learned about through the Kermit Gosnell trial and subsequent investigation.

If there is any one lesson which both Christians and non-Christians can take from the Bible, it would be life is precious. Life does not begin at birth, nor at conception. Life began at creation and that very same life God breathed into Adam’s nostrils has been passed on down through all time.

Dave Ricker
Wiscasset