Letter to the editor

Abortion not similar to Nazi Holocaust

I’m writing in regard to an obscenely insipid and
unpalatable comparison of the Nazi Holocaust to
“America’s Holocaust,” referring to
“partial-birth” abortions, a presentation I saw Feb. 17
while passing through Bruin Walk.

“Partial-birth” abortions are banned now, but they
have not always been, and they were utilized usually in cases in
which the unborn fetus was severely deformed and had a very minimal
chance of survival. Women are not running around getting pregnant
and waiting seven months and then aborting the baby.

I find it extremely upsetting that the Holocaust is constantly
being referenced by radical organizations to furnish their own sick
agenda. I’d like to see what would happen if a group of
students chained themselves together near Ackerman Union and had
giant signs reading “Slaves to Student Fee Increases”
while singing spirituals.

This isn’t even my biggest problem with the
“demonstration.” (Nobody was there to discuss the
issue; there were about five signs displayed and two people among
them.) Are these people forgetting about our annihilation of
American Indians? What about the Japanese internment camps
established at the same time as “Hitler’s
Holocaust”?

The few people I have spoken with feel the same, and I am
confident many others share my feelings.

I am Jewish, and I first heard of the Holocaust around the time
I was 9. I remember reading about men being castrated and left to
die. I remember reading about Nazis snuffing out the last remaining
residents of buildings with toxic gases, letting them choose either
to choke to death or be shot in the middle of the street. Families
were torn apart. I’ve seen pictures with hundreds of burnt,
smoking, naked bodies piled on top of each other outside gas
chambers.

I have always supported abortion rights, believing a woman has a
right to make decisions about her body. Whether you feel abortion
is murder, it is not in any way similar to the attempted genocide
that was the Holocaust.

Jeff Robson First-year, mathematics and
physics