LTE: 'Abortion should never have been politicized'

On July 2, 2013, my step-dad Calvin T. Lucy was the CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAY for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Abortion ... does it need to be politicized?

Editor, Times-Dispatch:

Recently, on your Editorial and Op/Ed pages, two writers came to essentially the same conclusion concerning the belief that the abortion issue can never be resolved politically. In a letter, Read F. Goode Jr. stated, “The sheer fact abortion has remained a front page, red-hot issue every single day since its legalization is de facto evidence that some issues cannot reach a national consensus.” On the Op/Ed page, Robert Sarvis was quoted on several issues, including abortion. He stated: “The absolutism on the (abortion) issue is ruining our political discourse. I think most voters would like some relief from the demonization and over-the-top rhetoric coming from both sides.”

The desired relief has been staring thinking voters in the face for several years. The politicization of abortion has been one of the most terrible political errors in recent history; in that it will never be resolvable on the national, state and local levels simply because it is a highly personal issue resolvable one case at a time only by collaboration between a woman, her spouse, her pastor and her doctor.

The conclusion and relief is that wise Republicans will immediately take steps to remove all aspects of abortion from political platforms, stating that it should never have been politicized in the first place, regardless of how rosy and vote-rich it appeared to be. Wise people will recall the Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” That wisdom has been in short supply for decades.

Calvin T. Lucy.
Midlothian.

China kills babies ... and Posner apologizes to China because we enforce our immigration laws??

Rush Limbaugh pointed out on his Monday radio show that the Obama administration apologized to China for human rights violations in America. Rush, paraphrasing the Chinese, said:

... "Look, you guys have a high crime rate, you have too much poverty. Don't lecture us on human rights, America! Don't lecture us. Look at you. You got a crime rate that's burgeoning, you got homelessness, you got poverty, and you got racial discrimination. So don't tell us. Don't lecture us about human rights." This guy Posner, on his own, brought up the Arizona immigration law and agreed with the ChiComs that it is a problem!
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When Obama apologizes for this country around the world, it is a surprise that one of his peons would do the same thing? China has not apologized to us for anything. Nobody apologizes to us. We're out there apologizing to them. It's truly outrageous. The ChiComs shoot people dead who try to cross their border. Who in the world are we kidding here? We, from the responsible sectors of the media, have been attempting to warn the people of this country who it is that make up this regime and what their ideology is and what their attitudes about this country are.

Most are familiar with China's communist government and its lack of concern for human rights or what the rest of the world thinks of it.

Pundit and Pundette have another horror story from China about an aborted baby, thought dead, heard crying while waiting to be cremated:

An aborted baby declared dead by doctors in south China's Guangdong Province cried before he was due to be cremated, but died hours later as doctors refused to treat him.

Read the entire post ... you will be truly disgusted, saddened, and shocked at what is considered "normal" in China.

Tell me again about the "human rights" violations as we try to enforce our immigration laws....

Is waterboarding worse than abortion?

Waterboarding ... a means to retrieve information from the enemy.

Abortion ... the termination of pregnancy.

One ends in discomfort. The other ends in death. Which is worse? Donald Douglas at American Power blog responds in "Is waterboarding worse than abortion?"