Abortion

Dear Editor: America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion. With the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, America, as a nation, has been legally killing pre-born babies for 33 years. How can this be happening here in the United States where we believe in life as a right to all Americans? The only conclusion that I can come to is that people just don't know what it is that they support. That is why Priests for Life, on their Web site, www.priestsforlife.org, encourages people to look at pictures of abortion.

Dear Editor: In a recent interview published July 3 in the Dubuque, Iowa, Telegraph Herald, Kerry said, "I oppose abortion personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception. " Let's say for the sake of discussion that Senator Kerry is telling us the truth, though his actions and voting record show differently. This man is agreeing that this is a baby that is being killed but it is for the greater good of the mother that he supports the abortion. If that is the case, why not make it legal to kill a baby after it has been born - if it will help the mother?

Dear Editor, As we approach the general election in November, I want to encourage other people of faith to participate in the 40 Days for Life campaign. From Sept. 24 through Nov. 2, our community will be uniting with over 170 other cities across America for the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history. People of faith are invited to join together for 40 days of fervent prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. One may also participate in a peaceful vigil for one or more hours outside the EMW in Lexington where abortions are performed.

Dear Editor: Regarding abortion, Ben Chandler has said, "I think it, very simply best left to a woman to make that decision. " This sounds an awful lot like the infamous "personally opposed to abortion, but cannot impose this belief on others" that we hear so often from politicians as well as other "pro-choice" individuals. It is truly sickening how many people are willing to embrace this cowardly philosophy. French existentialist and nobel prize-winning author Albert Camus wrote, "We shall know nothing until we know we have the right to kill our fellow men, or the right to let them be killed.

Dear Editor: Four thousand innocent American lives every day! That is what is at stake in this election. That is what is lost daily through abortions in America. Though some want to view abortion as the "law of the land," I view it as an abomination that should never have become law. No government has the authority to allow the destruction of innocent human lives; and as long as we sit back and don't try to do anything about it, the blood of these babies is on all of our hands.

FRANKFORT - A bill that would require doctors performing abortions to first perform an ultrasound and show the woman the images has passed the Kentucky Senate. The bill, SB 40, sponsored by Jack Westwood, R-Crescent Springs, David Boswell, D-Owensboro and Brett Guthrie, R-Bowling Green, would also outlaw partial-birth abortion and require face-to-face consultation between a doctor and the woman seeking the abortion at least 24 hours before performing the procedure. The measure passed the Senate on a vote of 32-4, Feb. 8 and now goes on to the House for consideration where its future is less certain.

Dear Editor: Sunday's "march for women's lives" and the ongoing partial birth abortion trials bring up a question that has bothered me for some time: How can these pro-abortion groups say they are "pro-choice"? If they were really for a choice, wouldn't they want pregnant women to make a truly well-informed, well-thought-out choice? Why, then, do these groups oppose giving the possible abortion recipients literature, ultrasound or other information about fetal development or possible after-effects of abortion?

Dear Editor, It amazes me what people will do to promote their political candidate without checking facts or history. Like some saying John McCain has always been pro-life - not so, his record says otherwise. Same thing for George Bush. He switched from pro-choice to pro-life. Now, for Al Gore, as I do not want to leave either party of flip-floppers out. During his run for president, Gore, who was campaigning as a champion for pro-choice, took a big hit when news accounts revealed he had cast anti-abortion votes and expressed anti-abortion sentiments in the 1970s and 1980s.

Dear Editor, The May 13 edition of The Advocate-Messenger carried a story by Associated Press television writer David Bauder with the headline "Pictures driving public opinion on war in Iraq like never before. " The gist of the article was that "stomach turning" photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse caused an outrage by Americans and an investigation by our Military and Congress. According to the article, having these photos provided "truth in a way that even words don't describe.

Dear Editor, In a recent letter to the editor titled "Durham should get facts straight," we all know John McCain was in Vietnam when the original Roe vs. Wade was passed. He has waved that flag for months. What I was talking about was the number of times it has been before a Republican Congress and president and they did nothing to change it when they absolutely had total control. Now they are waving the same old abortion flag again - guess why. It's election time again.

The people of the Boston area and across our country were outraged over the horrible and senseless deaths of innocent people in the bombings at the Boston Marathon.  It is sad and a shame our country is apparently saturated with such people that seem to be so brainwashed they believe only people like them should be allowed to live. I am glad our president finally woke up and labeled those responsible what they are: terrorists. What took him so long to face up to fact, truth and reality?

Pray for the little ones so brutally slaughtered.  Imagine being so young, in a place where you feel secure, are provided for, and have no worries. Suddenly, with no warning and with no way to prepare, your life is ended among terror, chaos, blood, and pain.  Why are they doing this?  You have no chance to protest and no way to defend youself.  Someone who doesn't even know you has decided to kill you.   We can debate assault weapons, but what about the knife attack on 22 children in China?

Lives of little ones are precious Pray for the little ones so brutally slaughtered. Imagine being so young, in a place where you feel secure, are provided for, and have no worries. Suddenly, with no warning and no way to prepare, your life is ended among terror, chaos, blood, and pain. Why are they doing this? You have no chance to protest or to defend yourself. Someone who doesn't even know you has decided to kill you. We can debate assault weapons, but what about the knife attack on 22 children in China?

Health care professionals and religious leaders joined forces with a visiting minister from California to speak out against abortion at a rally Saturday in front of the Boyle County Courthouse. Rives Grogan, who along with parishioner Frank Cruz was arrested for protesting during the vice-presidential debate at Centre College, and Danville resident Dinah Hopper organized the “sanctity of life” gathering that drew about 50 spectators. “We must speak up for the babies who cannot speak for themselves,” Grogan said during the rally.

I would think most (if not all) Christians would be strongly against abortion, even for late term babies, or even finishing killing them in cases of botched abortions after they have actually been born, same sex marriage and homosexuality.  How in the world could we who claim to be Christians put our stamp of approval on or support a politician who approves of such things, whether they be Republican or Democrat? Sadly, however, apparently there are millions across this country who do vote for and support those who uphold such policies.

You can devalue a word through overuse, “genius” and “hero” spring to mind. So it is with trepidation that I use a word to describe medical procedures being required by several state legislatures to deter women from seeking abortions, but there is a time to call a thing what it is, and in this case, that word is rape. Due to a horrific political backlash and vice-presidential aspirations, Virginia's governor has backed off the requirement, but Pennsylvania and other states are plunging on with laws that  require women seeking an abortion to be subjected to a transvaginal ultrasound.

When young women walk into the small downtown Danville office of the Pregnancy Resource Center, wondering whether they might be pregnant or struggling with what to do about it, Vicki Mayotte knows what it's like to be in their shoes. Now in the middle of her life with two kids of her own, Mayotte went through two pregnancies and abortions early in her life, at ages 16 and 23. “I regret it,” she says now of her abortions. “At 16, I had no business being a mother, and had somebody really sat down and discussed adoption with me, that's the choice I would have made.

Dear Editor, This is a brief response to Janet Gordon and Debbie Rozicki. In my letter to the editor, my reference was to the civil rights movement, not to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both of which were, however, huge achievements of a movement that was at its most intense from about 1955-65. And yes, passage of the acts was bipartisan, and I should have said so; and yes, Lyndon Johnson knew passage would ensure the break-up of the New Deal Coalition and give the South to the Republicans.

Dear Editor, In response to the article by public health consultant Patricia West of Philadelphia (Keep religion out of health care reform, Nov. 29) I totally agree with her that there ought to be a complete separation of church and state. She apparently views abortion as totally a health issue, when, in fact, it is also a spiritual issue. She attacks the Catholics and any ecclesiastical source for their voice to Congress in "health issues" that limit women's choices.