2008 Woodie Awards
Letters To The Editor
Date created: 12/7/04 Section: OPINION
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I am writing in regards to Todd Lenaburg's article "Who will stop the genocide?"
There is a statistic that I found unbelievable, but first off, I would like to compliment Mr. Lenaburg's skillful rewording of www.abortionno.org. Although I would not be as bold as to call it plagiarizing, it comes close.
As for the statistic that was so freely thrown out: "more than 93 percent of people use (abortion) as a form of birth control." Now while I do not know exactly what span of time Mr. Lenaburg was referring to, let's explore this for a moment. For the sake of argument, let's pretend that no one uses any other form of contraceptive, so the remaining 7 percent are childbirths. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were more than 4 million childbirths in United States in 2003. This would calculate to over 53 million abortions in 2003 alone, greatly contradicting the 40 million since 1973 stated in the article. Let's not explore the statistics if other forms of contraceptives were used or if the 93 percent statistics included all the way back to 1973.
In the future, please do your readers a justice by checking your "facts."
Arin Smith
Parent
I share with many that utopian vision that America can do wonderful things - we've proven it time and time again. Yet, I can honestly say that I have never felt so despondent and fearful for my country as I feel today.
Debate rages about what our founding fathers meant when they wrote, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...." Throughout history, American leaders have made it clear that religion should be a private matter between a man and his God and that it has no place in state matters.
Are moral values a myth? No, I do not think that moral values are some absurd myth that Republicans conjured up. As far as I'm concerned, neither party has a corner on religious devotion or faith. The last time I looked, God did not register as a Republican or Democrat.
There is a statistic that I found unbelievable, but first off, I would like to compliment Mr. Lenaburg's skillful rewording of www.abortionno.org. Although I would not be as bold as to call it plagiarizing, it comes close.
As for the statistic that was so freely thrown out: "more than 93 percent of people use (abortion) as a form of birth control." Now while I do not know exactly what span of time Mr. Lenaburg was referring to, let's explore this for a moment. For the sake of argument, let's pretend that no one uses any other form of contraceptive, so the remaining 7 percent are childbirths. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were more than 4 million childbirths in United States in 2003. This would calculate to over 53 million abortions in 2003 alone, greatly contradicting the 40 million since 1973 stated in the article. Let's not explore the statistics if other forms of contraceptives were used or if the 93 percent statistics included all the way back to 1973.
In the future, please do your readers a justice by checking your "facts."
Arin Smith
Parent
I share with many that utopian vision that America can do wonderful things - we've proven it time and time again. Yet, I can honestly say that I have never felt so despondent and fearful for my country as I feel today.
Debate rages about what our founding fathers meant when they wrote, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...." Throughout history, American leaders have made it clear that religion should be a private matter between a man and his God and that it has no place in state matters.
Are moral values a myth? No, I do not think that moral values are some absurd myth that Republicans conjured up. As far as I'm concerned, neither party has a corner on religious devotion or faith. The last time I looked, God did not register as a Republican or Democrat.
