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Letter: Is potential life more important than existing life?

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) State Street was filled with hundreds during the SLC Women's March for reproductive rights and access to safe abortions, Oct. 2, 2021. Saturday's march was held in conjunction with other marches across the country.

Pondering questions about personal rights, why is it that wearing a mask is considered a personal choice, when not wearing one can infect several people?

Why is receiving a vaccine a personal choice when not receiving one can kill yourself or dozens of others?

Why does our Legislature decide they will not interfere with people’s health decisions but seem perfectly content to step on a woman’s health choice, the most life-altering decision a woman can make?

Why is organ harvesting not a mandatory requirement if you are a match for a needed recipient, I mean if every life is sacred then shouldn’t donating a lung or kidney be a requirement?

Why is body autonomy protected, except a woman’s reproduction?

Why does our government shirk their responsibility to mandate life-saving measures but decide they know more than women and must decide for them?

Don’t argue that you are protecting that unborn possibility for life when you have already shown your hand at letting a virus kill thousands.

Should I deduce that the possibility for life is more important than a current life, or is it something more disturbing?

Iris Nielsen, North Logan

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