To the Journal editor:

By now everyone has heard of the Dobbs vs. Jackson (Suprreme Court) case. Now, Michiganders are being asked whether we should disregard our moral responsibilities and allow “constitutionally guaranteed” unrestricted elective or non-therapeutic abortions.

The “common sense birth control” advocates have proposed a Michigan constitutional amendment that runs contrary to centuries of societal instincts.

Proposition 3 advocates … pregnancy as an arduous parental conscription that unfairly weighs down mothers, promising only years of drudgery, financial hardship and unfair sacrifice. Prop 3 is human death subsidizing human convenience.

If passed this November, Prop 3 replaces the series of “settled laws” with an ethically indifferent “abortion care” (an oxymoron if there was any) proposal by framing the elimination of the unborn as “reproductive freedom.” Under Prop 3, besides allowing on-demand abortions, it cancels existing laws on (1) parental notification, (2) prenatal education, (3) illegality of coercive abortions, and (4) prohibition elective evacuation abortions — laws regarded as common sense by almost 60% of Michiganders.

For many, voting to allow the state of Michigan to sanction and subsidize abortions up to the day of birth is a decision few have seriously considered, and one we probably haven’t given much honest thought.

So, before we address “my body, my choice,” let’s ask ourselves the tough question. What is the unborn? If you answer as science does, then do the unborn have bodily rights?

Information presented by nearly all doctors have determined that life; human life; live given to our care, begins at conception. Human life does not gradually develop. it doesn’t start as something foreign into something human — we are human at fertilization.

The absolutist’s reproductive freedom proposed in Prop 3 implies that before birth we are never a person; not at conception, not at 24 weeks, not when viable, and not in the delivery room.

This radical and inhumane position has very little public support — only 13% of Michiganders — but if Prop 3 passes, the social and family consequences will apply to all.

Social justice starts before birth. Educate yourself on the dangers of Prop 3. Learn what it means. Please visit www.abortionno.org, with a warning of disturbing images.

Prop 3 does not reflect Michigan’s values. It is not in our DNA to kill the innocent, abandon the unborn, and ignore the helpless when they need us most. Vote no on Prop 3.