To: The Dallas Morning News
Date: March 29,  2005
Subject: Terri Schiavo and her pro-life supporters
Result: not printed 

 

Dear Editor,

Thank you for printing Froma Harrop's column in the Viewpoints section, about how she wishes the pro-lifers were more pro life. That is an idea you don't hear too much. In fact, the last time I heard it was in 1988, when I made the suggestion in a submission to Viewpoints that I wrote on the subject of abortion. Unfortunately, for humanity, my ideas about that could not be printed then, due to limited space. Since then, they've just been buried there in my web site, radicalview.com (once I got it up in 1997), along with all of my other good and interesting ideas through the years that couldn't be printed because of the lack of space, which you regret.

Ms. Harrop's ideas about what it really means to be pro life are so little in the public mind that when a reporter interviews a fervent pro-lifer, as I recently heard on t.v., where a guy was talking about Terri Schiavo and what a great moral guy he was for traveling across the country to protest in her behalf, it doesn't even occur to the reporter to ask the questions posed by Ms. Harrop in her column.

Just imagine what if the energy and resources that the pro-lifers put into fighting against abortions and trying to save people whose lives are hopelessly ruined and lost  were instead devoted to all the living people who need help, who were not aborted and are not in a persistent vegetative state.

Thank you, John Vehon