To the editor:

I鈥檓 usually one for live and let live when it comes to people expressing their point of view, but the letter from Yvonne Callihan takes the biscuit.

I don鈥檛 belong to the Right to Life 琉璃神社 brigade, though I do believe that science has proved beyond doubt that life begins at conception. Dr. Robert George, in his book Embryo says the following:

鈥淭hat is, in human reproduction, when sperm joins ovum, these two individual cells cease to be and their union generates a new and distinct organism. This organism is a whole, though in the beginning developmentally immature, member of the human species. Readers need not take our word for this.

They can consult any of the standard human embryology texts, such as Moore and Persaud鈥檚, The Developing Human, Larsen鈥檚 Human Embryology, Carlson鈥檚 Human Embryology & Development Biology and O鈥橰ahilly and Mueller鈥檚 Human Embryology & Teratology.鈥�

I understand that the right to choose is law in Canada but that fact doesn鈥檛 make it right. That鈥檚 my opinion. But Yvonne Callihan isn鈥檛 satisfied with having the law on her side, she also wants to censor the expressions of those who think differently.

If the Right to Life poster along the highway disturbs people, it鈥檚 probably doing what it was designed to do. Tearing a living, though immature human fetus apart in its mother鈥檚 womb should be an offense. Dog鈥檚 lives are precious yes, but human life is sacred.

Alan Slater, 琉璃神社