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November 28, 2003/Kislev 3 5764, Vol. 56, No. 10
Letters to the EditorNovember 28, 2003
Late term abortion is wrongEditor:I am always in favor of giving a regard to rape victims, but if a woman decides that it is a convenient time to have sex, then she is making it a convenient time to have a baby. ("Defend a woman's right to choose," Jewish News, Nov. 14) I believe that contraceptives are against the will of God. How then can abortion be a means of family planning? I believe we need to rethink our disputes with President Bush. Why should we pay tax money to help take away the precious lives that God blesses us with? If it's not a good time for one to be having a child, then why not let that child be a blessing to a family who can give them a great life? We are not the ones who have the say in which life is convenient. God does. Cecilia Montrazeli Scottsdale Editor: Kate Michelman writes that the ban on partial birth abortion makes no exception for the health of the mother. ("Defend a woman's right to choose," Jewish News, Nov. 14) This is inaccurate. The legislation reads, "This subsection does not apply to a partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself." Her claim that partial birth abortion is moral - and that it is moral to fight for it - is wrong. Partial-birth abortion is a gruesome, murderous procedure where a healthy child, 24-plus weeks since conception, is pulled from the mother's womb except for the head. A hole is then punctured in the infant's head. The infant's brain is then sucked through the hole and the body disposed. We should protect these infants from murder, and if doing so means we are part of the "Religious Right," then I am happy to be there. Harris Weisman Scottsdale Stereotypes are bad businessEditor:After reading Carl Goldberg's letter to the editor ("Heed Abe Foxman's warnings," Jewish News, Nov 21), I must congratulate him for being consistent. I must then take him to task for being consistently wrong. Because not every single Muslim spouts the same rhetoric as Goldberg, Goldberg concludes that all Muslims are out to get all of us Jews. An easy analogy would be to conclude that if one Jew is convicted of fraud on Wall Street, then all Jews act fraudulently and deceitfully in business, finance and banking. We all know that such a statement is false on its face, but some people still believe such canards. Goldberg would do well to follow my late mother's teaching that stereotypes are to be avoided, and that one should look to each individual's words and actions. Many Muslims speak and act in the same reasonable ways that we do. Stereotyping such as Goldberg uses led a little more than two years ago to the murder of an innocent Sikh shopkeeper because a hate-filled fool decided that he "looked like" a Muslim. When we Jews use stereotypes, we make ourselves open targets for other stereotypers. That is bad business for us Jews to involve ourselves with. Bob Rosenberg Phoenix
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