Wednesday, March 19, was the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war. Various news accounts noted that 3,990 U.S. military personnel had died in the war so far. These reports however only tell half the story. They don’t tell about America’s other war, a silent war in which the causality figures are the same now, almost 4,000 killed in Iraq in five years, and almost 4,000 killed every day in America’s domestic war against the unborn child.

The men and women who died in Iraq died with honor and will long be remembered by their country. They knew why they were there and it was their choice to sacrifice their lives for their country. But the innocent child had no choice, and knew not why he or she had to die.

At least the families and loved ones of our fallen heroes have pictures and happy memories to help them ease the pain of their loss; and they also have the praise of their country to remind them of the courage and valor shown by their sons and daughters. But the young mother-to-be, who was deceived or pressured by our society into killing her unborn child, has none of this. She, like the innocent child she lost, is forgotten by our society. The abortion industry that championed her “right to choose” remembers not its victims. Now that the deed is done and the bill is paid, she is nothing more than a number on a bank deposit slip.

Each abortion usually leaves two casualties behind, one dead, one wounded; sometimes the count is two dead. For the surviving “mother-no-longer-to-be,” the pain and suffering is just as great, if not more so, as those who have lost a loved one in battle. But in this war she receives no consolation from her country; no taps will be played in honor of the child she will never see; no flag that draped the coffin can be hers, no Medal of Honor to proudly display, no photographs or happy memories. All she receives is the abortionist’s statement which is stamped: “paid in full.”

Many people complain that the Iraq war is senseless, but do they ever consider the senselessness of the abortion war? Adolph Hitler killed 6 million people in the extermination camps of Nazi Germany, yet the toll in America’s abortion camps now stands at nearly 50 million dead.

In November we will vote for a new president. The Republican candidate will work toward ending this "other" war while the Democratic candidate will work toward continuing it. In my view, it is time to bring this other war to an end.

Mrs. Julie Baltrinic
Massillon