We can all agree that Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor uses words as cleverly as a surgeon uses a scalpel.

Her having been selected by a president who, as an Illinois state senator, voted to let abortion-surviving infants die unassisted, the inference can be drawn that President Obama is comfortable with her abortion views. More indicative of her view is her regular use of the word "anti-abortion" instead of "pro-life." She doesn't replace "pro-choice" with "pro-abortion," which would, at least, level the playing field of words.

Those who call themselves pro-choice see abortion of infants in the womb (fetuses) as reasonable. Their alleged reasoning is that the fetus is not yet "viable" -- able to survive independently.

These folks should be terrified by their own reasoning. Many of us die without any intervening period of dependency on others for survival (non-viability); however, many of us will enter that period long before our death.

Do those who embrace "pro-choice" realize that their own rationalization for abortion is a sound rationalization for euthanasia?

Sotomayor may never take the step on that "slippery slope" to accepting euthanasia, but her apparent views on abortion certainly give encouragement to proponents of that gruesome practice.

Frank Lariscey, Evans