Editor: This is an open letter of thanks to Senator Gerry St. Germain:

I just read your comments to the Senate on the foolishness of the decision to free a mother who committed infanticide.

Had the woman done the same thing to her boyfriend: 鈥渟trangled her boyfriend with her underwear and threw his body over the neighbour鈥檚 fence,鈥� she would have been charged with first degree murder.

The argument that 鈥淐anadians sympathize with mothers who give birth without support,鈥� makes even less sense, as she was reportedly living at home with her parents. How bizarre is our morality?

Thanks for trying to arouse our fellow Canadian citizens to reality: Abortion is murder. Plain and simple.

There are 60,000 Canadian couples are reportedly wanting to adopt a baby this year,  and we abort 300 a day (over 100,000 a year).

Then the childless adoptive parents go overseas to China, Russia, Haiti and other places, and pay megabucks 鈥� upwards of $30,000 to$40,000 鈥� and endure years of legal hassle to adopt and bring their adopted child back to Canada.

The child is more often a girl, as boys are deemed more valuable to some cultures, and often it is a child with emotional, mental or physical handicaps from neglect after being abandoned by the birth mother and surviving in often harsh conditions

This, in turn, adds thousands more dollars in medical care, counselling and special needs classes to look after the newly-adopted child.

The economics of abortion alone are mind-boggling.

Be assured of our prayers Gerry, for wisdom to be 鈥渁s wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove鈥� in your role as a senator.

I look forward to another opportunity to see you, encourage you and pray with you on Friday, Oct. 14 at the 17th Annual 91原创 Leadership Prayer Breakfast. Our friend Dr. Don Page, retired professor of leadership studies at Trinity Western University, is the speaker.

It takes place from 7 to 9 a.m. at Newlands Golf and Country Club in 91原创.

I trust you can join us again. In the meanwhile, every blessing.

Keep the fire. Keep the faith.

For those who are interested, his comments are available at  http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/Sen/Chamber/411/Debates/014db_2011-09-28-e.htm#12

Jim Cunningham,

Murrayville