One issue is sufficient
Benjamin Thomas Remmert
class of '00
Let me get this straight — because children are starving, usually because of wars and vicious regimes about which the average man, especially in another country, can do nothing, and non-O.J. murderers are executed, ostensibly for public safety, though I agree that argument is less and less valid by the day, then the rest of us have no right to proclaim the humanity — and the right not to be brutally destroyed — of unborn children?
So because cruel foreign dictators and merciless judges have the power to ruin lives, pro-lifers should not have the right to protest infanticide?
Moreover, unless you do something about other crimes, you have no right to speak about abortion? I suppose also that nobody has a right to study chemistry who does not also study astrology. Maybe supermen like John Litle can solve all problems at once, but for most of us one is enough.
Should we blame Mother Teresa for helping the poor, while she neglected the American war on drugs? What about Dr. King — he bravely helped secure the rights of his people, but was he not awful quiet about saving the whales?
Do everything or do nothing seems to be the point Mr. Litle wants to communicate. Well, just for the record, pro-lifers as a whole do go out of their way to help poor young mothers and the poor of all stripes, as well as praying to end the death penalty.
Get to know some active pro-lifers, not those who merely say they are, Mr. Litle, and hopefully you will change your tune. They themselves will tell you they could never do enough, but you will see they are doing their best.
Benjamin Thomas Remmert
class of '00
Oct. 30, 2001
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