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Safety Day success
Dear Editor,
Kudos to the men and women of the Russell Volunteer Fire Department for the excellent Safety Day on October 2. It was organized, educational and lots of fun.
My grandchildren enjoyed it, learned a lot and brought home lots of goodies.
Thank you for all your hard work for Safety Day and for protecting our community.
Karen S. Martin,
Russell
More than one choice
Dear Editor,
As the Texas Heartbeat Act is igniting more debate on abortion, it is important to define the words and phrases used in this debate.
What exactly are reproductive rights? The right to choose to use contraceptives: birth control pills, IUD, injection, condoms (male and female), diaphragm, cervical cap, sponge, vaginal ring, implant, birth control patch and spermicides. The right to choose the person to reproduce with, how many to reproduce, whether to even have sex, where to have sex, what kind of sex are all legitimate choices.
After reproduction occurs there are twop choices: give birth to a live baby or abort the baby. If choosing to give birth to a living baby, one can parent or make an adoption plan.
If choosing to abort the baby, there are various methods to accomplish that. A dilation and extraction is a dilation of the cervix prior to the abortionist using instruments to dismember and extract the baby. A chemical abortion is the use of pills containing mifeprestone and misoprostal to end the life of the baby. An aspiration abortion uses a suction catheter to extract the baby. The lining of the uterus is then scraped to remove any remaining parts. An induction abortion is a third trimester abortion. The abortionist will usually inject the baby with a lethal dose of digoxin or potassium chloride causing cardiac arrest for the baby and then induces labor to deliver a dead baby.
"My body, my choice" is reasonable until choosing for the body of a separate human being. No person has the right to kill a child - even when that child is temporarily dependent on another person for nine months.
A small, young, developing child (also known as a fetus, product of conception, or clump of cells) should be protected under the law. Using vague or manipulative language to rename the taking of a human life makes it easier to accept the unacceptable. Perhaps we can find common ground -- free, easily accessible birth control, healthcare and community support for mothers, affordable and plentiful adoptions, and extremely rare abortion. The truth is abortion stops a beating heart.
Linda Burroughs,
Russell
Some bad medicine
Dear Editor,
In response to a recent commentary by Leonard Pitts article "Goodbye, and good riddance to vaccine stubborn."
I would like the Times Observer to say goodbye, and good riddance to any more of Mr. Pitts' commentaries.
I am not being stubborn about taking the vaccine, I am raising ethical objections to vaccines.
Pitts makes the equation of making it look like a freedom issue using a common refrain, "There's no freedom no more," citing examples as ridiculous as "can't smoke in a movie theater" to "Can't post the Ten Commandments in a courtroom," etc.
That's where my red-blooded American patriot blood came to 212 degrees fahrenheit and have long realized that taking down the Ten Commandments is one major step for the far left leaning Democrats to get their justification for enacting and legislating murderous abortion laws to thumb their noses at God with His law ... Thou shall not murder. Take God out of the equation and all is fair game ... man now becomes God.
I stand with a Father James Altman a "canceled priest" from the Diocese of La Crosse, Wis., and humbly proclaim his message "You can't be Catholic and a Democrat."
Alan R. Kiser,
Warren
Sink or swim with launch?
Dear Editor,
Just finished the Oct. 13 article about the boat launch that will apparently save all of Warren's problems.
Warren will have more than $500,000 a year in economic impact as a conservative estimate based on 10,000 launches. Wow, that's great, only problem I see is that is 27.3 launches a day for the entire year.
This would be dead of winter with ice, snow and maybe even a high of only 10 degrees or so. The best time of year, first of April to end of October is about 210 days, This does not include possible snow and cold in April or October.
Also with heavy downpours and river bank full when people will not go on the river. Using the 210-day figure and 10,000 launches this comes out to 47.6 per day. If the city is to make $500,000 from this scheme (scam), how much will it cost to use this gold-plated ramp?
Who gets to pocket the money? Will this money be used to help keep Warren taxes down? How about county taxes seeing as they want county money also to help pay for it.
Daniel Wilson,
Tidioute