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FAMILY, FRIENDS OF WOMAN SCHEDULED TO DIE FOR BACK-ALLEY ABORTION MOUNT LAST-MIMUTE CLEMENCY APPEAL


Clergy, Fundamentalist Groups, Right-to-Lifers Join in Applauding "Victory.";Push for Execution of Sentence

AUSTIN, TEXAS(UPI)--Cynthia Cutler of Plain Springs, Texas, was just 24 when, on May 3, 2009, she was arrested just hours after undergoing an illegal abortion--and a mere three months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade (a far-reaching 1973 decision which had legalized abortion) and paved the way for an avalanch of state laws equating abortion with murder.

Now, five years after her first-degree murder conviction in 2004 and a highly-publicized series of unsuccessful appeals--including to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the conviction and capital sentence late last week--Miss Cutler, now 30, will die by lethal injection shortly after midnight tonight unless family, friends, pro-choice advocates and state and national women's right's organizations can convince the Texas governor to commute Cutler's sentence to life imprisonment.

Sources at the state capital, however, feel that Governor David Atkins--long an ourspoken opponent of abortion--will deny all appeals for clemency.

Miss Cutler had sought out a first-trimester abortion as a result of a rare ovarian discorder that not only doomed her unborn child, but would have posed a serious threat to her life had she carried her pregnancy to term. Most states outlawing abortion, however, make no distinction between a so-called "abortion of convenience" and an abortion that might be considered medically necessary to preserve a woman's life.

"Murder is murder, regardless of the reasons for it," Clarence Jorgenson, a noted Catholic legal scholar and canon lawyer, stated. "The end cannot justify the means. American courts, thank God, are finally starting to realize this."

No fewer than 37 women are currently on death row nationwide for having obtained illegal abortions--a fact that many pro-life organizations consider a major victory.

"Such women have been violating the rights of the unborn for years," Kathleen Cummins, spokesperson for Women for the Sanctity of Life was quoted as having said. "Finally, they're all going to get what's coming to them."

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That's the "political"--Here's the religious:

Genesis 2:7 and Job 33:4 seem to allude to the notion that life comes with the breath--not with a fertilized egg. In fact, our word for "spirit" comes from the semitic language form for "breath."

And Jesus said nothing about abortion, but Psalm 137 states that "happy is he..who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."

Hmmm....

Fundamentalists' hysterical preoccupation with the fetus is merely projection. They identify with and imbue the unborn with innocence under attack. Like themselves, they see the fetus as surrounded by secular enemies who wish to do away with it, disturb and dash their dreams as they take shelter in their womb.