LETTER: Respect others’ opinions

Editor,

It saddens me to no end that there are people out there who so viciously disrespect others who have beliefs that differ from their own, that they would go so far as to promote instating laws against them. I am referring to the debate over whether or not to return abortion to the underground culture of back-alley medicine by reinstating laws against it. To everyone reading this who honestly believes that making abortion illegal will make abortions stop happening all together, truly must be living on another planet – a planet of wishful thinking.

As an adoptee, one would think that I would be very pro-life for had my biological parents chosen to abort me, I would never have been born. Instead they made a choice but at least the choice was theirs to make and not some faceless government laying down the law and threatening imprisionment if any pregnant woman is not found delivering that baby within nine months. Is that what these pro-life people want? Right now there are two options, but if they have their way, there would only be one option (or prision).

Let’s be honest people: their way sounds like a dictatorship and it sickens me to even hear of it. The right to choose (as we can already see in today’s society) is not going to turn up a 100 percent abortion rate and I am living proof of that. My advice to all those people who are pro-life? Learn to deal with the fact that for every one of you out there, there is someone else who feels exactly opposite; the difference being, the people who are pro-choice respect everyone’s opinion on the matter whereas your respect most frequently only extends to your own kind. For those people out there who are both pro-life themselves but still respect others who are pro-choice, my hat is off to you and forgive any supposed implications that I was trying to group all pro-life people under the same umbrella of narrow-mindedness and especially intollerance.

Jason Meneely