LETTER: Abortion argument lacking
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 12 years, 1 month AGO
This letter is in regard to the guest opinion of one Mary Budd in the My Turn column Saturday, Oct. 12.
OMG, Ms. Budd, are you for real? I am a 52-year-old male. I have three great kids, and without the ability for girls to get an abortion I would have seven more. And those seven all before I was 21. As it was, I didn’t have my first child until I was 26. I’m not condoning abortion as a form of birth control, but for you to say the girl “can always give birth to the baby and then give it away,” well, I’m no girl but I can’t fathom giving away one of my kids. Can you?
I notice you say “women” a lot. The girls that are getting the majority of these abortions are not yet even 21 years old. I know for a fact that if the schools were giving away free birth control to the girls in my life, they would not of had to have an abortion. So, unless God is going to start handing out birth control you might want to leave him out of this discussion.
Obviously you are a bona fide pro-lifer and that’s fine. But kids will be kids, and all kids have to go to school and don’t have to go to church. So, if you want to do some good for your cause, maybe you should consider donating your time and money to not only educating, but giving access to free birth control to the kids in your community.
And for the women you talk about, well, accidents do happen. I don’t think anybody has sex just to have an abortion. But if they make the choice to have an abortion, that would be what we call FREEDOM here in America. Freedom of choice. How would you like it, Ms. Budd, if you were told you couldn’t go to church anymore, and when you tried people said mean things to you? That sounds crazy, right? Well, so does your rant, because that’s all it was, with all of your talk of butchery, murdering and the damnation of the female persuasion. You don’t know any of these people, yet you sit so high and mighty in judgment. What does your God say? Don’t cast a stone, for you are not without sin yourself. Think about it, Ms. Mary Budd. Peace.
JOHN GILLMORE
Coeur d’Alene