Tuesday November 18, 2008
Letters to the Editor for Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Dear Editor,
In the context in which it has been used in the political arena, the term “pro-choice” is misleading. It should be called by what it really means, i.e., pro-murder!
We are all “pro-choicers” in this country. God is “pro-choice.” He’s given us the freedom to choose – “Choose you this day whom you will serve” [Joshua 24:15] He’s shown us the pros and cons of the paths before us, but leaves the final decision to us, ever since that 1st choice between “good” and “evil” in the Garden of Eden.
Women in most cases (exceptions are noted), have made the choice to have intercourse without protection. They made that choice, and a bad one it was. They now have to make a second choice - to keep the growing baby in their womb, or to give it up for adoption.
However, that doesn’t seem to placate the self-interest of many. They become militant, instead of repentant, and dare to demand that the government dismiss its long-standing view of murder and the penalty required for this crime.
Instead of receiving the prescribed sentence of 25 years-to-life, they want to be patted on the head, and told - “We give you permission to murder that innocent, frail little baby attached to the umbilical cord within your womb.”
Here are another couple of choices at your disposal … you can choose to “pickle” your baby with a saline solution, scrape it out in pieces, vacuum it out, cut the umbilical cord in utero causing it to suffocate, decapitate it, or wait until it’s partially born at which time the doctor would stab scissors into the base of its neck and withdraw the brain from it.
Instead of insisting that the government and taxpayers pay for your moment of indiscretion, you could (oh look, more choices!) use that same energy and passion to rally for easier adoption laws, work to improve the chance of a better life for the little one nestled under your heart and return sanity to this whole process.
Don’t choose to be a murderer and have to spend the rest of your life living with that guilt. There IS another way. Make the sensible, humane choice.
Barbara A. Tierno
Endicott, New York
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Re: Ottawa Archbishop Thanks Canadian Catholics who Promoted Humanae Vitae in the Last 40 Years
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08111712.html
Who Promoted Humanae Vitae ????
I really feel that we were not told the truth about Humanae vitae. We were in Saskatoon in 1964 where we attended every meeting regarding this issue. We had all our confidence in the clergy. Now we have to live with the thought that at our death we will be meeting souls of babies that were aborted by my taking the pill for 6 years..... How many of them 5??? 10??? 50???
I dread the look they will give me for following the teachings my Church gave me. How can I stand in front of them and see the gaze of disappointment!!! It's easy to say...do not look at the past....The past is following us around for the rest of our lives!!! While we were blindly accepting all their explanations, we feel we have been lied to by a clergy who was not courageous enough to tell us the truth.
If only we had been given the text of Humanae Vitae....maybe we would have understood it. I never would have taken the murder contraceptive pill!
I would like to pardon them....but I can't ask all my lost children who were never held by their devasted and so sad mother and father!!!
E.Campeau
Cornwall, Ontario
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Thanks for sending news updates directly to my e-mail. I can't believe that the majority of Catholics in the U.S. ignored FOCA and voted for Obama anyway. Obviously, the Catholic church is in need of a major revival.
Regards,
Graham Sproule
Alberta, Canada
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I am thankfull, that there is a "watchdog", who keeps an eye out for all of us.
The world is so strange, who would ever think a woman would have an abortion. The most beautiful "gift." to be destroyed. Unbelievable. Thank you for doing what you are doing. May your work be blessed.
Ann Baarda
Ontario, Canada
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