Letters to the Editor
Jan VanDenBerg
Published Letters: 49
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Hey, weirdo -- why don't you get the facts?
[Read the article: Dr. Laura to Silda: It's all your fault!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The following just posted is just plain WRONG:
In polygamous relationships if the women do not engage in adultery, there are no STD's.
[HA HA HA HA HA HA -- just completely NOT a fact, your strangemind}
In Polyandrous Relationships there are STD's and often the sort that give women cancer of the uterus and Papilloma Virus ((HPV), Penile Warts) are the result of many men having sex with one woman, even if all of the men are faithful to her. The disease is initiated by the female body's reaction to various sperm entering her.
[HA HA HA HA == where did you read this little bit of total crap? You appear to be able to believe anything you WISH were true.]
The disease can be deadly to women, but not to men. It would appear that polygamy is natural and polyandry is not.
[Hey, stupid, didn't you know that MEN can get HPV in their mouths and get cancer from it? Yeah, they get cancer of the throat. It kills them.]
What totally unsupported, plainly untrue garbage people can get themselves to believe, should it be convenient.
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Things which could be done
[Read the article: Single mothers are ruining society!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shame? That's not going to work.
We need to require all children born to have a DNA-matched father on the birth certificate, attach his social security number and increase his taxes by, say, $5000 a year, unless he is custodial (claims the child as a deduction.)
Then, we give the money we garnish from these men's wages directly to the children, bypassing the mothers. The money should be used to fund a universal daycare program, school lunches (and breakfasts and dinners), tutoring, clothes, classes, higher education and other services children need.
The mothers should get nothing and they should be required to work fulltime.
Any child whose father cannot be located for identification on the birth certificate should be taken by Child Protective Services and put up for adoption as a newborn.
Any father who will not work should be found guilty of a misdemeanor and put to work inside the prison system, his wages there paid, garnished and paid into the system.
Children beyond the second to any poverty-stricken mother or father should be taken for adoption at birth.
It should not be easier for a woman with a child to fund a college education than for a woman without one.
We need some new rules. Paying people to produce children they can't afford is not a good way to get fewer such children.
The fathers, in particular, need to be forced to assume the costs of their offspring, even if, in the extreme, it means jailing them and, net net, increasing the cost to the state.
We should also provide free birth control and free abortions, no questions asked.
Anyone voting anti-abortion should be required to adopt one of these children.
Jan VanDenBerg
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A good example of the type of little twit who are born with the connections to get this kind of drivel published
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How bo-o-o-o-o-ring!
But she will write a book of it!
You know, editors should be more selective. Publish people who have something to say.
She's a child.
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Cytotex is not swallowed
[Read the article: The other abortion pill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you swallow cytotex, it may help you with your ulcers but if you are using it "off label" to (maybe) induce an abortion, the pill is inserted deep into the vagina.
Cytotex has become the abortion method of choice throughout Latin America, where fatalities and infections due to botched abortions have plummetted. (Abortion is illegal in all parts of Latin America except Mexico City and Cuba.)
The fact that these high percentages of women seeking abortion in the Rio Grand Valley have tried (and failed) to induce one utilizing Cytotex first reflects the heavily Hispanic nature of that population and their significant interaction with the Mexican population. It probably tells us little about the popularity of this practice elsewhere.
Still, think about it, if this protocol were so good, why would we even need RU-486? RU-486 utilizes two drugs -- one causes the abortion and one causes contractions leading to expulsion.
Cytotex contains only one of those two drugs, so it can't possibly be as safe and effective as the full protocol.
Still, it is far better than the old methods previously used in places where legal, safe access has been choked off.
No one knows the penetration of this type of do-it-yourself half-protocol abortion using an ulcer medication in the US. Still, women's behavior in Latin America gives us some indication of what is likely to happen here should the nutballs on the right ever criminalize this essential medical procedure.