2008 Woodie Awards
Letter to the Editor
Jem Herron
Issue date: 1/25/08 Section: Opinions & Editorials
In response to Steve Swedberg's editorial on Roe vs. Wade:
I believe you have grossly over-simplified and misrepresented this issue, to the effect that you have done a disservice to the pro-life movement and insulted the intelligence of everyone.
Whether or not Roe v. Wade should be upheld, and what direction the moral compass of our country should point is a perfectly legitimate question to ask, and your stance that abortion is ethically reprehensible is completely valid. But that's not enough if you're going to get on the proverbial soapbox on our school's editorial page. You can espouse whatever moral convictions you want (they are valid in and of themselves) but please don't back them up with nonsense, and please don't speak to me like a child.
The idea that Roe v. Wade being overturned would in any way affect illegal immigration is ludicrous. People don't cross the border illegally because of our population size, they do it to find jobs and live here. We would still have 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, and they would still be cheaper labor than the fetuses that weren't aborted, and employers would still take advantage of this fact.
It is also counter-intuitive that on the same page that you throw Stalin's statistic line at us (as if we were all still in middle school) in an attempt to make us see abortions as more than numbers, on that same page you invite us to look at abortion in terms of how the dead babies could effect the labor force and social security.
Equally ludicrous is your vague and completely unjustified statement that the ethical erosion that makes abortion possible is somehow hurting health care. Argue all you want about whether it's moral -- the fact is abortions have become a lot less dangerous since they were legalized. Even if you were speaking about healthcare in general though, I highly doubt that medical science has become less advanced because patients have been walking in to hospitals for the past 35 years espousing their right to be idiots, citing the pro-choice movement.
I believe you have grossly over-simplified and misrepresented this issue, to the effect that you have done a disservice to the pro-life movement and insulted the intelligence of everyone.
Whether or not Roe v. Wade should be upheld, and what direction the moral compass of our country should point is a perfectly legitimate question to ask, and your stance that abortion is ethically reprehensible is completely valid. But that's not enough if you're going to get on the proverbial soapbox on our school's editorial page. You can espouse whatever moral convictions you want (they are valid in and of themselves) but please don't back them up with nonsense, and please don't speak to me like a child.
The idea that Roe v. Wade being overturned would in any way affect illegal immigration is ludicrous. People don't cross the border illegally because of our population size, they do it to find jobs and live here. We would still have 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, and they would still be cheaper labor than the fetuses that weren't aborted, and employers would still take advantage of this fact.
It is also counter-intuitive that on the same page that you throw Stalin's statistic line at us (as if we were all still in middle school) in an attempt to make us see abortions as more than numbers, on that same page you invite us to look at abortion in terms of how the dead babies could effect the labor force and social security.
Equally ludicrous is your vague and completely unjustified statement that the ethical erosion that makes abortion possible is somehow hurting health care. Argue all you want about whether it's moral -- the fact is abortions have become a lot less dangerous since they were legalized. Even if you were speaking about healthcare in general though, I highly doubt that medical science has become less advanced because patients have been walking in to hospitals for the past 35 years espousing their right to be idiots, citing the pro-choice movement.
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