Steven Lopez’s recent letter on March 6 [“Individuals free to make their own choices”] seriously begs a response. Lopez was “angry” about another writer’s “overly biased … use of his religion as if it … validated his point” on the abortion issue.

Religion and the Bible are often two different things. Regardless of your “religious” beliefs, the Bible is the standard by which both sin and goodness are measured. God’s word is plain and clear.

Contrary to Lopez’s argument, a fetus is a human life from the second of conception. It does not, indeed, “scientifically and legally [lack] qualities that make it an actual human.” Your lack of research here is appalling.