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May 2002
Letters
Peschisolido's chance to fight for life
In "Month in Review," the March Interim reported that Joe Peschisolido had moved from the Alliance to the Liberal party. I worked very closely with Joe on his attempt for the Etobicoke North seat as a Reform candidate in the 1993 election. I joined him and worked hard for him because of his pro-life and pro-family agenda. He was openly pro-life and told me directly of his clear opposition to gay marriage. His switch to the Liberal party is of less importance than the new opportunity this presents to fight for human rights, the unborn and family values within the Liberal party. Many of his old Etobicoke supporters would hope for this and at the same time, all the best for him.
Robert Byers
Toronto, Ont.
The torture of abortion
Thank you for your paper and the vigilance on behalf of the unborn. It is a tough battle that you have taken on and one we cannot relinquish. I believe it is your aim not to stop all abortions as much as bring about an awareness that abortion is always murder and should not be made easily available.
I am not sure if the suffering of the aborted baby has been given much consideration. If she is doomed to die, does she also have to suffer in an undeserved way? What is done to sedate her before the otherwise torturous proceedings? If an abortion is wanted, why torture a child? Isn't it time to press for laws that prescribe a procedure to provide a painless death for these babies? Advocates of abortion, and certainly the women who have abortions, would not want excruciating and agonizing pain for the little one they have so cruelly rejected.
Tim Hapel
Thunder Bay, Ont.
Editor's Note: To be clear, The Interim wants an end to all abortion, period. The idea that abortion would be less wrong if the aborted baby did not suffer is perhaps well-intentioned, but misplaced, and could have grievous practical consequences by making abortion more palatable to both the general public and women facing crisis pregnancies.
Abortion linked to school closings
There's a lot of talk these days about the closing of schools in local communities due to declining enrollment. No one wants their own child's school closed, but did you ever stop to think about the reason for the declining enrollment? Do the math. With 45,000 abortions every year in Ontario alone, at an average of 40 students per classroom, we are eliminating the equivalent of 1,125 classrooms every year. That's also 1,125 teachers we could have employed. By now, the hundreds of thousands of babies aborted between 1969 and 1984, if they had been allowed to live, would be working and paying taxes, and would be buying houses, cars, food, clothing, vacations, etc., thus pumping millions of dollars into the Canadian economy every year. So, yes, it's no wonder enrollment in schools, as well as the economy in general, is way down. We as a society only have ourselves to blame.
Jean Hedley
Holyrood, Ont.
God's judgement
Physicians Severino Antinori and Panaycotis Zaros said "when the objective is to help men and women, than the objectives can justify everything. What is ethical is what is right for people." In other words, human judgment is more important than God's rule and promises. I had to think of Sarah's decision when she gave her slave girl to Abraham as a wife. Human decisions against God's plans will have huge consequences. It would not be the first time that human reasoning is way off. Sarah's decision started the trouble we have now in the Middle East.
M.A. Homburg
Terrace, B.C
Is terror behind abortion?
Is it possible that terror is behind abortion? Like you, my gut reaction says no, the idea is absurd. It's just that the practical results of 30-odd years of abortion in Canada looks like a terrorist's dream outcome. We kill far more of our citizens every two weeks than the Al Qaeda group managed in the total on September 11th, and we do it with cold efficiency year in, year out. We just use abortionists not airplanes. Each new Canadian killed is one less taxpayer, consumer, and skilled worker for us. Two and a half million dead citizens later, we face a crippling population implosion. Did we simply commit national suicide? Or were we pushed? Was it simply the unintended consequences of insane social tinkering, or the diabolical working-out of long range plans by our enemies? Ridiculous? Outrageous? Think about it: who benefits? And how come this exact-same scenario has crippled every other Western power? Maybe the Al Qaedas of this world should just open a chain of abortion clinics and destroy us faster.
David Packer
Niagara Falls, Ont.
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