Response To Letter Writer

Yes, I am very passionate about life, and I understand some folks have an equal passion against my views. I am always open to discussion and debate about the issues – in fact I enjoy it. What I cannot and do not respect is personal attacks from either side.

Usually when a person is not capable of staying on topic and resorts to personal attacks rather than intellectual debate, I ignore them. Even more so when profanity is thrown into the equation. It is usually an indicator of what I am dealing with. I learned that on the issue of abortion or abstinence education or any hot topic, arguing with someone just for the sake of arguing is a waste of my time and energy. There are women and children out there who need help. And spending my resources arguing with people is wasting the talents God has given me and others when we could be helping who that really need it.

I received a heated response (printed in the Letters on Opinion section) to my February column that I need to address. I will try to steer around the trappings that would normally cause me to ignore it so I can respond just in case there are others with the delusion that Sen. Barbara Boxer is good for the health of our people in our state and country.

My response to Darlene Nyner:

Well, I am thankful that the Good News, Etc. reaches such a broad audience. That really is good news for outreach. And I’d have to say that this is the perfect example of the person that is a staunch supporter of Boxer – thus proving my previous point. This is the reason the coming elections are so important for us to turn out and vote!

If you are still not convinced, consider the facts I was not able to fit into my previous column. I find it interesting verbiage to call killing an unborn child, “abortion“ does inhibit a potential human. The significance of the research study on public opinion of abortion is exactly that – American’s don’t just think abortion inhibits potential, they believe it kills a baby and is manslaughter. Manslaughter, in case you hadn’t heard, is illegal.

The study is obviously much bigger than I can include in a newspaper column. It goes on to show that the majority of Americans do not believe killing should be legal – even if you call it by another name: Choice.

This is precisely why I get frantic letters from NARAL and Planned Parenthood fearing that the new generation of women does not have the respect for abortion because they do not know life before Roe. College age women are increasingly pro-life and the “pro-choice” demographic is aging. NARAL may be scared and trying new advertising and packaging ploys for abortion. I just think people have seen what abortion has done to this nation over the last 30 years and they are getting wise. More than just this latest Zogby poll shows America is increasingly pro-life.

As to Boxer making good choices, the brief highlights on her liberal views were simply a minute portion of her radical actions. Setting aside the issues of supporting our military that defends our freedom or environmental regulations that keep us from clearing brush, or the fact that she voted against the legislation that brings California fire relief, her “choices” on the life issue is what should drive voters to the polls in November.

Boxer led the fight against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban – the most barbaric practice on living babies and mothers since sacrifices to Baal. Boxer proposed to the Senate an “endorsement” for Roe on the anniversary this past January – resoundingly rejected. Boxer actively participates and leads the filibusters that are hobbling our system of appointing judges for fear of overturning Roe. The good news there is Roe herself is working through the courts to get that overturned in spite of the senator’s efforts. Boxer wrote a powerful and strong letter to the FDA to convince them to approve RU486, which killed 17-year-old Holly Patterson in Hayward. Boxer debated whether a baby was a living human being if the “toe was still inside the mother or if an entire foot was inside the mother” it could then be considered born or whether she considered it still legal to “abort” that child.

Boxer is out of step with mainstream America. It doesn’t take an expensive research poll to prove a majority of Americans, even those that consider themselves Pro-Choice, do not agree with killing a child on technicalities of a toe or foot in the process of being born. That’s just common sense.

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Dana Serrano Chisholm can be reached at DanaChisholm@cox.net.