A horse is a horse of course, and the baby is a baby, not maybe

Many parents save their kid’s baby teeth, a lock of hair from their first haircut, even a portion of their umbilical cord as keepsakes.

Some folks (after surgeries) even save their own removed body parts (appendixes, tonsils, kidney and gallstones or even tumors) in a jar of formaldehyde as some sort of curious momento.

Coincidentally, while in a veterinarian's office yesterday, I noticed a prominently displayed, freakish collection of jars containing tiny equine fetuses. They were ghostly, delicate figures, fully formed with detailed features, floating weightlessly in the transparent fluid which preserved them in grisly perpetuity. Although knowing they were just animals, it was unsettling to me nevertheless.

But it made me wonder as Planned Parenthood proudly and loudly boasts of the many diverse services it provides, why not display some of their own handiwork in their lobby?

Even though “pro choice” advocates and “reproductive service providers” positively proclaim a fetus as nothing more than an inert cluster of cells, and abortions are “similar to a tonsillectomy,” I very seriously doubt any of their clients have ever requested the “remains” of their “procedures” be preserved for display on a shelf in their homes as a souvenir of the abortion they endured. Why not?

Mike Sparlin, Victorville

What's Apple Valley up to?

So what in the world does the Town of Apple Valley's wire transfer payment of $112,447.50 to Capital One fit?

Where does the credit card payment for "2017 Site and Facility Lease Bond Interest Payment" come into the town's picture puzzle?

Did they once again pay some expense on their Capital One credit card and now are paying for the credit card expense?

Is this another diversion of their real flow of funds to do ...?

Taxpayers should be getting the long shaft with a highly pointed spear.

Alvin Rice, Apple Valley