Fireworks ban needed

First I value and appreciate Jeff Mitchell’s commentaries in his column in The Californian.

Secondly, I agree with him and a good many other citizens in Salinas that, unfortunately, there must be a ban on all fireworks because of a very large number of inconsiderate people who insist on using illegal fireworks year after year since the approved fireworks were allowed in Salinas.

I am an 80-year-old handicapped woman. I couldn’t attend Tuesday’s City Council meeting. But I wish to convey my approval for a ban on fireworks.

Muriel Ryburn


Planned Parenthood, planned organ harvesting

How far have we come since the Roe vs. Wade decision? Those who were for abortion said the issue was that the fetus was really just a “blob of tissue” – nothing to worry about. You aren’t killing a baby, just removing a blob of tissue. Today, Planned Parenthood has become the primary abortion provider in America supported by our tax dollars.

Last week, we learned that Planned Parenthood not only sells body parts of aborted babies, but their doctors manipulate the babies in the womb to avoid damaging the highly desired body parts. “I’d say a lot of people want liver, “Dr. Nucatola, a Planned Parenthood executive, who performs abortions said. ‘And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps.’

She went on to describe the procedure: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, and liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”

If they are selling heart, lung and liver and other key organs, don’t you think that it is not a “blob of tissue”, but a BABY?

Thomas R. Lukes


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