We have read too often in the past months of lives lost in Iraq, as well as in accidents, fires, crime and storms. However terrible all loss of life is, I believe we have been lulled into complacency by the steady diet of these stories. We have little perception of the biggest takers of life and how they usually go unquestioned and unpunished.

At least 2,238 volunteer, U.S. military personnel have died in Iraq in service to their country.

Thousands more U.S. citizens have died in automobile accidents, cancer and heart disease.

More than 4,000 unborn babies, who did not have a choice, die because of abortion each day. National Right to Life estimates that more than 44 million abortions have been performed since 1973.

Is this acceptable? After all, these lives could be our future research scientists, musicians, humanitarians and possible world leaders. Who knows what contributions we are losing because of their untimely deaths. Information supplied by pro-life groups indicates that there have been 45 times more deaths to our unborn children in the past 33 years, than to deaths in all the combined wars the United States has been involved in during the past 235 years.

I sincerely ask you to expand your newsworthy reporting to include a call for “lifesaving” in all areas of our society. Let us look to life and preserve it to the fullest.

N. Edward Chapman, Auburn