If papers use this letter below, I can imagine many will not see the sardonic nature of what I wrote, and believe I am asserting there should be no moral problem.
My son noted such individuals when he looked at the washington Times comments for the letter just covering the Marion County issue. Yesterday I found the Corvallis Oregon paper had published it and there were no comments.
I sent this new letter to 40 plus papers and haven’t noted any that had used it as of today. What I wrote should only provoke outrage, but we will see.
No Moral Dilemma for Planned Parenthood
Do we really have a moral dilemma? In 2014 Marion County Oregon ruled they would not allow burning fetal material in their incinerator. Yet since Roe vs. Wade 56,000,000 abortions generated roughly 3.5 million pounds of this medical waste. Now Planned Parenthood feverishly explains harvesting body parts for scientific experiments. But how is that different from embryonic stem cell research?
These issues spark debate in despite of the Supreme Court decision allowing extraction of all fetuses not viable outside the womb. Therefore before viability, removing the fetus must be equivalent to removing any other harmful matter from the human body. When legality provides such moral certitude, then burning or recycling this material must be acceptable?
Forty years of scientific advances over should not be a concern. Granted, in an office today one woman may excitedly present the framed ultrasound of the “baby” she and her husband have conceived and already named. Another woman looking on may have recently aborted a fetus more mature that the one depicted. However, doesn’t the legal ruling provide the assurance needed to celebrate both events simultaneously?
I am sure some will raise the allusion to cremating millions of Jews during the Holocaust or the Japanese vivisection of prisoners. However, such misdirected passions should fall before the moral certainty provided to 300 million people by the deliberations of nine judges. Surely our intellectual soundness has evolved sufficiently that ancient religions or philosophies should not intrude upon our society and its legal bulwarks?
I see the problem: too many words with too many syllables.