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Letter: Words don’t mean same thing to all

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There has been quite the murmur of political opinions in the Rio Blanco Herald Times as of late. More recently of those who lean to the left. Let me recite Abraham Lincoln who said, “We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his…

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  1. Kristine Hicken
    September 7, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    I so hesitate to respond to this, but find I must. As a “liberal” woman who believes a woman’s right to choose what to do with her body is not your business or the governments, I find your arguments confusing and disturbing. First-I have gone to Planned Parenthood for 30 years for many more procedures than abortion. They are there for women and their healthcare needs when there has been no one else. They are kind, compassionate and professional in every way. Two-Roe vs. Wade finally gave women the rights over their own body – as far as I know, the Federal government DOES NOT fund abortion!!! When a woman has an abortion, she must pay for it. How can you become so deranged about the gun issue and yet feel it is quite all right for laws to be made against allowing a woman to make decisions about her own body. Mr. Pollock, have you ever been faced with the choice of an unwanted pregnancy? There is absoslutely no way that you, as a man, have any idea what a woman faces at such a juncture in her life. Such a decision is totally and completely between the woman, her doctor and the God she believes in. I understand the old arguments of “saving the innocent” – really, how many children have you adopted to save from abortion? How many crack babies have you gone out of your way to take care of? How many young boy’s are you a Big Brother to, because they have parents who did not want them in the first place? Our goal, as stated by President Obama, should be to educate people so that these unwanted pregnancies do not occur in the first place. And finally, Third – women have been “terminating pregancies” from the first time they took an herb that did so. Why don’t you let women decided what is best for them and any children they decided to bare.

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