Dear Editor:
Today's Ruth Marcus column on Sarah Palin was predictable. The "Ah-ha -- she just said that she thought about the CHOICE of abortion!" argument. We all have choices every day, We can choose to obey the traffic laws or not. We can choose to be civil and polite to others or not. People choose to do illegal drugs. People choose to have affairs. Some of these things are illegal. Some are perhaps immoral. It doesn't take away the choices we have.
The sad thing about this column and others like it that will inevitably come out is that the authors are so timid that they cannot even dare to be so bold as to "know when life begins." That is such a biological fallacy. Certainly elementary biology teaches us that when sperm meets egg and cell division begins that life has begun. Whether that life has any value is the moral and legislative question. But certainly the biological question is answered. The pro-choice movement deceives itself when it tries to pretend that there is no life in the objects it wishes to have the right to choose to abort.
It would have been refreshing if, instead of writing another "bash Sarah" column, Ms. Marcus could have considered the work of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller and his enthusiastic support for our next Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius. Why was he giving her so much campaign money over the last ten years? What does it say about her that she is so supportive of the pro-choice movement that she cannot even draw a line in the sand that says life has begun by 28 - 36 weeks after conception?
John B. Ramsey
3 comments:
The point in my original letter was to establish a scientific fact about the biological nature of the beginning of life. Pro-Choice people and other liberals can be so certain about the Scientific Facts of Global Warming or the dangers of Trans Fatty Acids, yet they become timid about defining when life actually begins. The reason is obvious: it doesn't help their argument by using science so they ignore it. When I brought in the governor of Kansas, I diluted that point, but I also probably made the letter more interesting to the Post editors. Or, perhaps my language was too graphic for them.
Apparently, unbeknownst to me at the time, there is a growing movement to block the Sebelius nomination on the grounds that she lied to the Senate about her relationship with George Tiller. And, although I have no association with anyone in that movement, I am happy that my letter may be useful in bringing that debate to the fore.
After the Swine Flu scare and then the Arlen Specter switch, there was little chance of slowing down Sebelius' nomination. She was approved by the Senate on April 29th.
I finally took a look at the comments written about the two Washington Post letters. In general, they were good examples of why online comments have degenerated into scummy, sleazy, icky, gross and disguting rants. I saved the worst offender of all:
FROM THE WASHINGTON POST COMMENTS: "clonedlamb wrote:
INTRINSICALLY EVIL know-it-alls Karau and Ramsey oppose the right to life of all sexually active women and sanctimoniously hope everyone overlooks childbirth's frequent grisly maternal deaths and disabilities. They probably also oppose all sex education, contraception, sterilization and affordable health care. They hope you won't notice that they are even commanding MARRIED women to practice abstinence only to avoid childbirth death. My own childbirth-INCONTINENT mother was ordered by a PLAYBOY priest to burn all my skin off as her PERMANENT marital abstinence excuse and my dad was ordered to go to hookers. I wish I had been aborted instead. Karau and Ramsey also HYPOCRITICALLY refuse to ban MALE sin-promoting Viagra and ABORTIFACIENT coffee. Perhaps Karau has self-indulgently given HERSELF coffee abortions! "Pro-life" Palin ILLEGALLY boarded a plane while she was in secret labor with a high risk fetus because she either hoped it would miscarry or she was rushing to see the REAL in-labor mother, ALCOHOLIC BRISTOL. Ramsey is simply outraged that Dr. Tiller is saving fragile health women from DEATH and their fetuses from future RAPE BY PRIESTS. I've talked to courageous Dr. Tiller and Sebelius is wisely protecting women from the pedophile-serving, mother-killing, NAZI-electing Catholic Church.
4/26/2009 7:45:20 AM"
And THAT is why I no longer participate on comments pages. Put your real name on what you write, and submit it to the newspaper if you really believe what you are saying. Of course, kooks like this don't get past the editorial process but they thrive online, don't they?
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