How to get wrapped up in the Abortion Issue 101

First there was this........

Osgood Censored

Editor, Times-Union:
While listening to WRSW 107.3FM at approximately 10:15 on March 7, I could not help but notice that one of my favorite spots, The Osgood Files, was interrupted as Charles Osgood began making comment on South Dakota's Gov. Mike Rounds intent to sign a new abortion bill into law. This was then followed by a replay of the earlier Osgood Files concerning military recruiters on campus. Is WRSW so sensitive to the abortion issue that they can't even broadcast their regularly scheduled programming, if it happens to pertain to abortion, regardless of the stance? Given the pre-paid and extremely redundant commercials WRSW broadcasts from the Life Issues Institute, I wouldn't think the Osgood Files would be breaking into any new territory.

I personally have absolutely no stand on this issue whatsoever. I feel that as a man, I could only have a somewhat diminished opinion if any, but also I feel given all the attention paid to this particular subject, that too many people ignore issues of more pressing and urgent need, of more paramount effect on our daily lives. Issues such as pollution, global warming, dependency on foreign oil, methamphetamine, child abuse and neglect, ect. ...

As one of the few features on WRSW that addresses important national issues from an intellectual standpoint, I am only distressed that even the Osgood Files seems to be subject to local pre-emption and censorship.

Ted Carter
Leesburg

Then there was this.........................

Ted Carter

Editor, Times-Union:
In response to the letter from Ted Carter: You think that pollution, global warming, depending on foreign oil, meth addiction, child abuse and neglect, etc. is more important than the murder of unborn babies. Excuse me, but that is also child abuse and neglect. What is done to those babies is atrocious and painful. They suffer being severely burned if saline injection is used. In partial-birth abortion, the doctor (if you can call them that) punches a hole in the base of the baby's skull and suction out their brain and then their little bodies are hacked up into pieces for whatever body parts or tissue that can be harvested with the remainder thrown away as so much trash.

As a man you were created in the image of God and for the purpose of loving him who first loved you.

Shame on you for being so cold and insensitive to human life created by God. How can you you say that, as a man, you personally have absolutely no stand on this issue whatsoever and that, as a man, you could only have a somewhat diminished opinion, if any?

How can that be when your mother chose life and therefore you live? Think about it. Think about the alternative. Now do you still have no opinion?

Be a man. Honor thy mother. Take a stand.

Faye Miller
Warsaw

Followed By This!

Subject: TO THE EDITOR

I would like to start this letter by personally thanking Gary Gerard for using my name as the title for the letter of rebuttal I am referring to. Now people who skim
through these letters will associate my name with the abortion issue, whereas it was not central to my original point. Thanks Pal.

I feel sorry for people who are so focused on one issue that they are essentially insensitive to any other. Perhaps this is why so many problems continue to go unsolved.

Obviously my point in the previous letter was lost, and that was a risk I was well aware of. That point would be the suggestion of possibility that local news organizations avoid politically controversial issues, out of fear of financial retribution from their advertisers.

I maintain that my position on abortion is that I have no position at all. I refuse to take a side and as a man I feel neither entitled nor compelled to do so, by you or anyone else. What is shameful is that as a Democrat and a purported Liberal, I can't bring other issues to light without them being overshadowed by abortion.

Where is the representation for those of us who agree and disagree with issues on both sides of the Liberal and Conservative divide. I'm tired of being pigeon holed, I'm tired of watching the general populace squabble over extremist ideologies and vote incompetent people into office because they stand a certain way on an issue regardless of what they can or will actually do about it. While we're standing around shaking our fists at each other over abortion or flag burning or Howard Stern, the people in power work their backroom, closed door sessions and continue to sell this country's future down the river. Did you know that yesterday congress voted to raise the national debt ceiling to $9 trillion dollars to prevent a first-ever default on U.S. Treasury notes? When the government reaches the new ceiling, expected sometime next year, the debt will represent $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

I suggest you wake up take a look around at what's really happening in this country.

P.S. Feel free to put my name on top of this one Gary.

Sincerely Ted Carter
Leesburg

STAY TUNED!!!