LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 7, 2012

Once again, we hear the same old rhetoric for doing so. From the pro-choicers, it will be making birth control more available as a means for preventing unwanted pregnancy and abortion. It's about a woman's need to be healthy.

This is anything but healthy. There are undisputed facts from the medical and scientific communities stating that every abortion, whether done by the pill, IUD, modern chemical cocktails or surgical instruments, kills a human being and injures a woman's body. True health care does not destroy life, but seeks to enrich longer life. ...

There are many documented cases of physically and emotionally scarred women seeking help from the after-effects of contraception and surgical abortions. Doctors now label this condition post-abortion syndrome.

People need to recognize our money is already funding abortions on demand through our taxes. Now government wants to mandate pro-life employees or policy holders (not necessarily Catholics only) to pay for services that do nothing but harm women and kill innocent babies. ...

What it boils down to is quite evident: that mankind is destroying one another for the sake of greed. Man cannot serve two Gods. Man cannot be this God. ...

Mary Ramirez


Voter suppression

I'm outraged about voter suppression going on in this country. Does anyone else think this is not the America we thought it was? Where is the outrage that could stop election corruption of disallowing our sisters and brothers of all colors from their inalienable right to vote?

Eighteen states have already passed these laws, with more states pending. Just because it's not happening in our state doesn't mean it won't affect us. Perhaps this is not recognized as the partisan step toward dictatorship it is.

Don't be fooled. Don't let them get away with it.

Carol Ghilain


Ignorance is still a choice

As I watched the GOP convention, I will never understand, in the age of information, that ignorance is still a choice.

So many words were emptied of their meaning on the floor of the GOP convention. The Republican platform went missing on a carton of milk. I thirst for meaning, but was left dehydrated. On the 49th anniversary of the March on Washington, Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech was kept asleep and overlooked by the Republican National Committee in a dark shadow of silence. Many outside the GOP convention had not forgotten.

Recently, in our class, we remembered and celebrated in song and video the Rev. Dr. King's sacred, sagacious sermon. The victims of Katrina were absent from the GOP arena, just as George W. Bush was absent from that arena of tragedy seven years ago. In fact, why has the 43rd president disappeared from Republican memory? I have seen his presidential portrait. In fact, Bush went missing from the Republican milk carton, primary debates, political ads and convention speeches. After eight years of service to the Republican Party, where is the moment of reflection for George W, right?

The speeches all felt more like the political resumes for a 2016 run for president after President Obama ends his second term of eight successful years as POTUS.

Curtis Ohl



