Letter to the Editor: Abortion legal, not right

I think the story and your comment are very insightful. If we think about it, why don't we sustain those people without food in the world? We have the resources, but those with all the comforts are not willing to give them up in order to save someone's life. (I too have been guilty of this, so I don't want to condemn, but hope we can work together to change). It shows in our actions that our mindset is that we value our possessions more than the lives of those other people. Abortion is a sign of that: the argument that we should not bring people into the world because they may not have a comfortable life implies that we put more value in the things that we have or that those children would have than on life itself. As long as abortion exists, it is a sign of this mindset. But it is a mindset that needs to change, so we can focus on what we can do to be able to welcome every human life onto this earth and sustain them.

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• Posted by kennalley on May 2, 2007 at 10:49 a.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Abortion legal, not right

Yes, why don't you adopt all those children and provide them with clothing, shelter and food not to mention the care and attention a child needs. Unwanted children do not contribute well to socity. There have been studies showing that unwanted children are badly raised and cared for and more likely to become criminals. So yes, if you believe abortion should be legal then YOU better be ready to accept the consequences. Until you are then you better shut up and let woman decide their own choices, you sexist and igrorant a-hole. By the way, did you get these views from your parents and church? How typical.

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• Posted by Gulla9 on May 2, 2007 at 5:22 p.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Abortion legal, not right

Why weren't the editorials from Monday put on this Web site? I would've liked to have been able to comment on the article this one referred to.

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• Posted by snood on May 2, 2007 at 7:04 p.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Abortion legal, not right

Btw, I agree 100 percent that abortion might be legal, but that doesn't make it right. Also, I'm pro-choice. The author's argument could go either way. Laws shouldn't be based on morality. Plenty of completely legal things are immoral. Being pro-choice doesn't necessarily mean you're pro-abortion.

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• Posted by snood on May 2, 2007 at 7:08 p.m.
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why are children unwanted? how many people living today feel unwanted? do we get rid of the all the people who are "unwanted" or do we change our mindsets and recognize that every person deserves to be wanted; to be loved?

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• Posted by kennalley on May 2, 2007 at 10:14 p.m.
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children are unwanted for many reasons and that is why abortion is a very private choice. in a perfect world every person and animal would be wanted but that's not reality. abortion deals with reality which is sometimes ugly. however life would be a whole lot uglier if it were completely eradicated. think about it.

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• Posted by Gulla9 on May 2, 2007 at 11:01 p.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Abortion legal, not right

If law is not based on some moral sense that what is it based on? Social ethics? But isn't that a moral judgement as well. You can't steal, you can't murder, you can't lie in a courtroom.....I would like those who obviously should have flunked high school government realize that our constitution and our country was based on the Judeau-Christian tradition. Today, some things change because there is a wider range of faiths, and lack thereof, represented in this country, but ultimately law is based on a moral code, so arguing you shouldn't legislate morality basically means you shouldn't legislate any basic social values period, including stealing, murder and onward.

Speaking about the article in general, I am not sure I like the idea of kids seeing those images either, but I think all those who want to make a statement for or against abortion should see them. If you are going to take it on the word of the Supreme Court that life in the womb below the third trimester is not yet "a person" and is thus not yet protected under law and thus can be aborted by the mother, I think these images would suggest otherwise. I also have to wonder why murdering a pregnant woman is considered a double homicide? Is that not excess tissue and not a person? So how can you be charged with homicide of a non-person? Sorry if I got too technical, seeing as most abortion advocates probably don't even know what all was contained in the Row v Wade decision and so are scratching their heads in confusion right now.

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• Posted by KUCatholic08 on May 3, 2007 at 4:38 p.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Abortion legal, not right

I know that I'm a month late in posting this, but is anyone else disturbed by the fact that this guy compares the ultimately difficult choice of whether or not to abort a fetus to his own soul crushing dilemma of 'anchovies v. olives'?

How ridiculous. I'm all for a healthy debate, but I hate it that an 18 year old guy can wax sanctimonious about issues he doesn't even try to understand.

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• Posted by bing on June 11, 2007 at 4:52 p.m.
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