What bothers me most about this absolute stance is that I no longer believe them when they talk about believing that abortion is murder. That claim and their actions just don't add up. If there were a law that actually allowed factory murder of children, kind of like the safe haven law in Nebraska, only allowed drop off at an abattoir instead of a hospital, I'd like to think that sane people, and organizations of sane people would do more than craft and read pamphlets. I think that a sane response would be razing the abattoirs ( or better yet, not allowing them to be built) and taking the children dropped off at them and whisking them away into a juvenile witness protection program and placing them with a family who would love them and care for them.

I can believe that they believe abortion is wrong, but I do have trouble with the idea that it is more wrong than capital punishment, and supporting politicians who seem to go to war for sport and to fill the pockets of their cronies.

To me, this is about control and hatred of women, and I find it odious. Fortunately in a primary season, I usually have my choice of candidates who support choice in this, so I don't have to be a single issue voter on this issue, because it would be tempting to do so.

Every so often something happens in the news to remind me why. When in Des Moines they found a dead newborn and tried to get the medical records of all women who may have been pregnant in the area during the previous nine months. Never mind that this was near a major interstate, let's take this excuse to invade the privacy of all women in the area so we can peer over their medical histories and judge them.

Good letter, man.

A response in the R-M, and my response: write any further comments over on that post.

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