Letter: Core values found lacking

The U.S. Supreme Court and California Legislature's debate over euthanasia laws to aid slaughter animals (Appeal-Democrat, Jan. 24) involves our culture's core values.

Livestock receive mercy deservingly; but as appellate court jurist John Noonan relates in his book, "A Private Choice," no such laws exist for children dismembered by surgical abortion. A similar mentality enabled Nazi authorities to transport millions of "unwanteds" to death centers, with minimal resistance from the media, courts, academia and the church. Today, consider America, where tens of millions of aborted citizens have endured mutilation — with minimal cultural resistance.

That the youngest of preborns is "a new human," wrote the father of modern genetics, Dr. Jerome Lejeune, is "not opinion" but "plain experimental evidence." When only one cell, at conception, a human is programmed with enough information, declared biologist Leo Schneider, to fill 1,000 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica, and "nothing," stressed Schneider, is added thereafter. California Civil Code 43.1 reads: "A child conceived, but not yet born, is deemed an existing person," with due protective human rights, except for "abortion."

The American Holocaust is as real as the German Holocaust and relies on the same cultural depravities: self-interest, materialism, silence, denial and inaction. Burke was right: evil triumphs when "good people" remain passive.

State records confirm that hundreds of Yuba-Sutter preborn residents are killed annually. What would they say to us? Why do we forsake them and accept the killing so willingly? Deception invaded our discernment, allowing tolerance to erode our moral reckoning. We are confused, as holocausts require.

Royce Dunn

Yuba City