Posted on 03/02/2008 1:22:18 PM PST by rface
Don Welter’s letter in the Jan. 28 Tribune contains too many errors to respond to in one letter.
Although fetal tissue being human and alive is neither enlightening nor controversial, the idea such tissue is a person is an issue of Catholic superstition and not biological fact. That women, however, are persons, is a fact with which even the anti-abortionists must agree.
Bernie Nathanson prostituted himself to the Catholic Church. After becoming a toady, he called himself a self-declared liar. Why in the world should we believe him now?
Christopher Tietsie, a biostatistician, said the number of women killed annually by illegal abortion was hard to quantify, but we had hard data on about 300, and he estimated 500 to 1,000 women killed before legalization. Anti-abortionists glibly write off these 17,500 to 35,000 lives to this date and weep crocodile tears for fetal tissue, 93 percent of the time the size of an acorn or smaller (first trimester). The psychopaths who murdered medical clinic personnel all insisted they be called "pro-life."
Most religions in the nation favor a woman’s right to choose, including Methodists, Presbyterians, Jews, Episcopalians, United Church of Christ, American Baptists, Unitarians and many others. Women will not tolerate going back to re-criminalized abortion, after 35 years, to please a primitive church. The five Roman Catholics on the nine-justice U.S. Supreme Court would have to rewrite constitutional law - which would be unprecedented.
I bet he would never write a column titled: Primitive Islam behind the Times on Abortion.
but I must ask....Where does Islam stand in regard to abotion?
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I’m a Proud Primitive!
You have to be advanced to want to save and protect the fetus.
What does God say?
It kills me how those who claim no religion spend so much time hating, instead of enjoying their godless lives.
What could possibly be missing...
This Primitive Catholics are just as bad as those crazy Southern Baptist.
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Higdon: I have to give in; the fetus is a unique, living human. That’s the science. Ok, but I haven’t decided they are ‘persons’, something I’ll define as coming into being when I think it does based on nothing more than my opinion.
Me: Yeah, it’s Catholic thinking that is supersticious. (sarcasm off)
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This guy is just another atheist bigot who is incensed that the Catholic Church - and most Protestant evangelical churches - dare oppose one of the leftist's bedrock principles: the alleged 'right' to the taking of helpless, innocent human life in the womb, which diminishes life and opens to door to all sorts of mischief, as we well know, 35 years post-Roe.
I'm not a Muslim, but to my knowledge, although there is no direct approval of abortion in Islamic teaching, there is no absolute ban on it, either This leaves the issue theologically cloudy and somewhat 'situational', except that the harming of a fully-formed 'fetus' would likely be condemned by Islamic law.
Perhaps an Islamic scholar could clarify the issue, but again, there are ambiguities in Islamic law regarding abortion. Generally, just like many Americans, I would surmise that most Muslims would be against it, except in 'special' situations, especially if the 'situation' involved themselves - or a close family member.
It is evident that this so called PhD has no real education or his IQ is so low that he know nothing.
The Constitution does not say one thing about abortion. It is one of the many powers that were left to the states or the people. But of course the anti-American left-wing fascist like John Higdon say the Constitution says many things that it does not.
The judges of the Supreme Court violated the Constitution when they made the pro abortion law. The Constitution gives the power to make law to the Congress only and not the courts.
But as we all know no one in the Congress or we the people have the guts to impeach those of the courts who violate their powers under the Constitution.
The newspaper published this POS? What a Nazi sack of crap this guy is.
How times have changed. Proponents of human sacrifice used to be considered members of primitive religions.
Hey Monk you know what we wouldn’t have Roe vs Wade if some crazy Supreme court didn’t make up laws HELLO
Higdon’s mother should have had an abortion.
Okay, this guy is a dumb-mass. He’s worried about how us pro-lifers are writing off the numbers of women that died having an illegal abortion, but doesn’t understand that we mourn their loss of life as well. Abortion killed the women.
Abortion kills.
I’m prolife because I’m against killing humans. I cannot see how this is difficult to understand. Oh, he’s “highly educated” and teaching others. Wonderful.
Wonder if the know-it-all depicted above has the stats on the number of women and teens who have killed themselves post-abortion... understand that there are psychological problems associated with taking your baby’s life.
What are the stats on women who have had abortions who have killed themselves? What about women who have had abortions who have become insane in remorse?
Higdon is going to find out exactly what primitive is following his particular judgment.
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