Letters to the Editor

‘Choice’ not about life

Abortion, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research are all just words. What do they really mean?

Simple! They mean “to kill.” Those with ordinary intelligence know it, too, but it doesn’t seem to matter any more.

For the last 36 years, the mantra has been “choice, choice, choice!”

We’ve heard the “education alone” approach, the “I’m personally opposed, but …” approach and the “don’t judge” approach.

One side of the matter

Regrettably, I write to protest the publication of your Viewpoint article “Ideological debate no longer genuine” in your Sept. 25 issue. The article is a slanted political article which has no place or reason to be in your publication.

The scandal of the high-profile Catholic funeral in Boston for a recognized political leader of the pro-abortion movement in our country has far less to do with Sen. Edward Kennedy’s tireless work on behalf of abortionists than with those clerics who sought to rationalize and misscharacterize this spectacle.

In the understatement of the decades of “legalized” abortion, a holocaust that has claimed over 50 millions lives, Cardinal Sean O’Malley said Sen. Kennedy showed a “lack of support for the unborn.” The senator was the chief political architect of the pro-abortion movement in our country for the almost four decades. Lack of support hardly characterizes the scope of that scandal.

It is a false dichotomy to propose that the choice was between such a high-profile funeral and no funeral. Cardinal O'Malley knows full well that he could have recommended a low-profile non-televised funeral for the family and close friends sans the hierarchy, as did our own former Archbishop Burke upon the death of pro-embryonic stem cell human experimentation advocate Sen. Eagleton.

A note from the editor

Many readers have asked why we publish fewer letters to the editor. The answer is that many letters do not fit our requirements or are otherwise not suitable for publication. We will to continue to publish letters and we encourage readers to send them.

Below is our standard policy regarding letters to the editor:

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