In the beginning, God created man in His own image and likeness. Ever since, man has been trying to return the favor. What a mess man has made by his poor choices! God is pro-life, pro-choice and pro-conscience. Pro-choice? Yes, He gave each a free will. God condemns no one to hell, but we may freely choose hell.

Don't confuse true ethics, morality or conscience with the fabricated legal/political "right" of a woman to choose killing her unborn child - even a child within inches and seconds of being fully born. NBC distastefully exploited the Virginia Tech massacre (public's right to know?); if NBC were to show an abortionist sticking a scissors in a child's head, expanding the puncture wound and sucking out its brains, would abortions survive?

Some defend a mother's choice to kill her child as a matter of conscience. I suppose the abortionists claim to be following their consciences also. Other mass murderers and suicide bombers/murderers follow their consciences as well. Unlike the deceitful rationalizations of an irrational ethicist, a true conscience loves and chooses genuine good and avoids evil. Ethical medical experts do likewise and choose life.

As the death toll of innocent children rises and more women's lives are ruined, our tax dollars help Planned Parenthood's profits soar, and the battle of ideas and words goes on. Secularists, some claiming to be Christian, fancy themselves to be God and therefore substitute their subjectivism for objective truth. Can further discussion be worthwhile?

Yes, it is definitely worthwhile trying to change the minds, hearts and behavior of pro-abortion people. With courageous heroes such as Vern Simon who has unselfishly dedicated more than 20 years defending life and promoting pro-life causes, the culture of death will be transformed.

Will you choose life for our unborn and for our nation?

Paul W. Rosenthal, Martinez