ELKINS (Inter-Mountain) - Cancer survivors, their families and caregivers took time to share stories Tuesday at the Steer Steakhouse during the Randolph County Cancer Survivors Breakfast. More than 100 people gathered to celebrate hope and living another year cancer-free.

Many liberals and feminists claim that abortion is a woman’s right, but what about the baby’s rights? In the case of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a Texas state law that banned abortions, except to save the life of the mother, was unconstitutional under right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. The Court prohibited states from regulating any aspect of abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy, and could enact laws protecting the life of the fetus only in the third trimester. Their decision was very controversial, even to this day, because abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution, and the procedure didn’t even exist! How could the Supreme Court of the United States call a procedure a Constitutional right, when it is not even mentioned in the document?
After studying the beliefs of the founding fathers, you can easily come to the conclusion that they would have been pro-life. While drafting the declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote “[We are] endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Not only did he say that life is a right, but that it is ‘unalienable,’ meaning that it cannot be taken away or denied. Now, it can be.
Abortion does not only deny a person their right to life, but it is also an extremely barbaric and inhuman procedure. When conducting an abortion on a 23-week old fetus, the abortionist inserts a large toothed grasping clamp into the womb and begins pulling out limbs at random, separating them from the baby’s body. The remaining body parts, including the chest and internal organs are grasped and pulled out, disconnecting them from the head. The grasping clamp is then inserted once again to grab and crush the baby’s skull, so it can be removed. The slaughtered and mutilated body is then disposed of, thrown away like garbage. This is the procedure referred to as being a “woman’s right.”
Students from Buckhannon-Upshur High School voiced their opinions on the matter.

Blake Williams stated, “Abortion is wrong and should be against the law. I do not believe that it is a constitutional right, but believe that when our forefathers crafted the Constitution, they did not want people to be able to murder their children. I think that states should be able to regulate abortion to any extent considering it is not mentioned in the Constitution. I definitely believe that life starts at conception, and that fetuses can feel pain. Pro-choice groups are hateful and very adamant about their beliefs.”  

John Antolini said, “My opinion on abortion is that it is an inalienable right, it should be free, it should be safer, and should be unregulated. I believe that it is a Constitutional right. According to Roe vs. Wade, it should be accessible of course, it’s a constitutional right, it should be legal, it has been for over 30 years but there have been some attempts in the state government and in the national government recently to try in stop it. States should not have the power to regulate abortion. I’ve heard of pro-life groups harming women and shaming them by going into women’s clinics and protesting them for no reason! They start shouting at them, and start calling them every name they can think of.”  

If you search for a news story where pro-life advocates attack abortion activists, you will discover that it very hard to find; however, it has been very common for pro-choice activists to brutally assault pro-life individuals. Research shows that there have been more attacks on pro-life advocates by pro-choice activists, than attacks on pro-choice advocates by pro-life advocates, yet they are the ones who claim to be the victims.  Pro-choice activists claim that a fetus is not a living human. From the Latin, fetus means offspring, so to be clear, the majority of people on both sides agree that it is a human. Now, if this human is non-living, why does it have a heartbeat and is able to move and grow? Dead corpses are non-living, incapable of movement, and do not have a beating heart; fetuses are quite the opposite. So, as you can see, the progressive argument that unborn babies are non-living does not make any sense.  The problem is that many Americans no longer look at life as being valuable. Rather than regarding it as being priceless, it is considered worthless and replaceable. When a society has no problem taking the life of another for personal conveniences, it shows that not only is it full of barbarity, but corrupted with a deranged type of selfishness.

In Spokane, Washington, on Wednesday night, according to local reports, World War II veteran and Battle of Okinawa survivor Delbert Belton was beaten by two African American teenagers described as between the ages of 16 and 19. Belton passed away Thursday morning of head injuries.