Another Option
Your view of the whole abortion issue is way out of line (Boomer With Attitude: “Strom Thurmond Is Smiling” by John Grooms, March 28). Dr. Dobson is not the governor, and your insults of such a fine man need to be withdrawn. You have no idea what it means to be pregnant or how many couples out there yearn to have that chance and can’t have it. The least these women can do is have the baby and place it for adoption so those that can’t have the babies will at least be able to care for those unwanted.
— Iaiela Dumitrescu, Huntersville
John Grooms responds:
Ms. D is correct that I can’t get pregnant (I’m not complaining), but I’m familiar enough with the process to conclude that women should not be forced by law to go through with it against their will. I wish it were as easy as Ms. D implies for women to take a pregnancy to a healthy full term and then have someone adopt the child right away, but child adoption simply doesn’t work that way. I suggest that fetus-focused activists (I won’t use the term pro-life until “pro-lifers” show equal concern for babies’ lives after birth) work to simplify the adoption process. That would save more lives than their misguided attempts to let their consciences be someone else’s guide. As for my characterization of James Dobson as an asshole, I will withdraw it as soon as he stops being one.
This article appears in May 2-8, 2007.
Bravo Mr. Grooms! Well said indeed!
“let their consciences be someone else’s guide” – unless its smoking in public, or creating seat belt laws, or telling oil companies when to stop making money, or need I go on? Liberals got to love’em………
Why is “The least these women can do is have the baby”?!!! What possible obligation do they have to do so? Upon what moral ground do you base your opinion that a woman with an unwanted pregnancy SHOULD be forced to function as a baby-producing machine?