End abortion, too

In his June 14 column on the death penalty, What’s your opinion now, Mr. Scalia?, Leonard Pitts Jr. quotes from Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun’s dissent to the Supreme Court’s decision 21 years ago not to review a death-penalty conviction: “From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.”

I, too, am against capital punishment as it takes a human life and, as Pitts said, “Once imposed, death cannot be undone.” I am left wondering, however, why this same rationale is not applied to the machinery of death that is abortion, where every victim is innocent, not represented by an attorney and the verdict is always the same: death.

This story was originally published June 15, 2015 at 7:40 PM with the headline "End abortion, too."