Pinthouse Pizza
Categorically False
RECEIVED Fri., Jan. 5, 2018
Dear Editor,
As a male bystander on the issue whose heterosexuality has never resulted in an abortion, I'm responding to Jeremy Daniels' December 28 letter ["It's True, Google It"]. I've Googled as he suggests, and quickly found a 2017 Pew Research Center poll whereby 59% of women say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 38% of women say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Daniels' assertion of a vice versa situation is thus categorically false. See the Ninth Commandment.
The law to which he refers is adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court. Its decisions approve abortions in some situations, and have done so since 1973. The Pew Research Center website cites similar approvals from some religious groups. The United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalists, most of Judaism, and the Presbyterian Church USA support abortion rights with few or no limits, and several other religious groups support abortion in some cases. The United Methodist Church considers it a matter on which to seek prayerful guidance from doctors, families, and ministers (not politicians and not pro-lifers with no connection to Methodist pregnancies). Other religious groups oppose abortion, and while I agree that sex, and parenting or non-parenting, should be exercised responsibly, the First Amendment makes it unconstitutional for the law to prohibit the free exercise of more pro-choice religions, or for the law to effect an establishment of more pro-life religions.
The pro-life movement would earn more respect if abortion-related "baby killer" vitriol were absent from the internet and elsewhere; if doctors, receptionists, and security guards at clinics operating according to the law had not been murdered by so-called pro-lifers; and if pro-lifers would stick to inviting and encouraging pregnancy responsibility rather than trying to impose their religions or ethical philosophies, applicable to their own pregnancies, on the pregnancies of other Americans with differing religions or ethical philosophies.
As a male bystander on the issue whose heterosexuality has never resulted in an abortion, I'm responding to Jeremy Daniels' December 28 letter ["It's True, Google It"]. I've Googled as he suggests, and quickly found a 2017 Pew Research Center poll whereby 59% of women say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 38% of women say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Daniels' assertion of a vice versa situation is thus categorically false. See the Ninth Commandment.
The law to which he refers is adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court. Its decisions approve abortions in some situations, and have done so since 1973. The Pew Research Center website cites similar approvals from some religious groups. The United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalists, most of Judaism, and the Presbyterian Church USA support abortion rights with few or no limits, and several other religious groups support abortion in some cases. The United Methodist Church considers it a matter on which to seek prayerful guidance from doctors, families, and ministers (not politicians and not pro-lifers with no connection to Methodist pregnancies). Other religious groups oppose abortion, and while I agree that sex, and parenting or non-parenting, should be exercised responsibly, the First Amendment makes it unconstitutional for the law to prohibit the free exercise of more pro-choice religions, or for the law to effect an establishment of more pro-life religions.
The pro-life movement would earn more respect if abortion-related "baby killer" vitriol were absent from the internet and elsewhere; if doctors, receptionists, and security guards at clinics operating according to the law had not been murdered by so-called pro-lifers; and if pro-lifers would stick to inviting and encouraging pregnancy responsibility rather than trying to impose their religions or ethical philosophies, applicable to their own pregnancies, on the pregnancies of other Americans with differing religions or ethical philosophies.
Chris Kuykendall