Letters to the Editor
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Partial B.S Abortion
You're right there, pointing out that the "are you still beating your wife" type label was invented to demonize the late term abortion procodures -- BUT -- it's an uphill battle to change the use of the term "CONSERVATIVE" to what it really is -- "Right Wing Theocrats" --
Barry Goldwater was conservative and he thought it was contrary to everything America stands for to object to any woman's right to choose her own reproductive status ... "conservative" meaning "We do not ineterfere with people's lives unless they interfere with interstate commerce."
So please -- "CONSERVATIVE" means you can smoke, drink, read, watch, and control your own body (and those of others who say it's ok) any way you want to, whether I like that or would want to do that for my own life. Anti-Choice, Anti-drug, anti-porn, etc are all RELIGIOUS DICTATORSHIP -- the product of the Descendants of the Cromwellians the English were smart enough to throw the hell out of their country, and who ended up on our Mid-Atlantic shores.
Of course, John Wilmot, the Odious Earl of Rochester put the issue this way: "Any person who would call things by their rightful name will surely be hanged."
Or Voltaire: "It is dangerous t obe right when the government is wrong."
But my favorite was fromCharles Bukowski who said: "Wars, politics, causes -- for thousands of years we've ended up with a sack of shit -- it's time we learned to think."