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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow, a cartoonist actually compared guns to Planned Parenthood?
I don't read the print version of my local paper but subscribe to the RSS feeds of the local news and letters to the editor sections. I noticed several letters complaining about a particular cartoon. So I ran a google search and what do I know...
(In fact my paper endorsed Obama for president and generally supports the liberal side of most issues but also publishes people like Charles Krauthammer or Victor Davis Hanson as well. And toons from hacks like Benson. Oh, not to mention that the Washington Post Writers Group employs both Krauthammer and Benson!)
One letter to be published Sunday says:
Planned Parenthood has a long history of supporting women's health and choices, of which only a part is reproductive health. I have no doubt that without Planned Parenthood we would have a much higher abortion rate.
And Monday's LTTE section had two differing views. Decide for yourself which one was more rational.
Oakenshield
(614 posts)Vicious stupidity and ignorance, that sums up Republicans perfectly.
OneTenthofOnePercent
(6,268 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)will do this
will it now?
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)second two word post I've seen this morning... or..
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)and he isn't wrong.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)What a disgusting cartoon.
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)and this is par for the course for her.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Geez, she is a hack and a tasteless, divisive, vindictive hack at that.
treestar
(82,383 posts)They should find this disgusting. It's not like the gun deaths are OK no matter how many abortions occur.
dembotoz
(16,825 posts)that republicans are all up in arms about abortion but are perfectly ok with
the many thousands more who die becasue of the lack of affordable heathcare.....
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Her work isn't "ha ha funny", it's "You can't believe someone could be this daft and walk erect funny".
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Surprised this post is still here
Since that time several others have noted the rw drawing comparisons as well, something I predicted they would do and which I actually understand to some extent (as I am surrounded by rw family members - and no, I am not unfriending my family on FB so I will continue to get this stuff).
There are two mindsets here - one is the rw who sees abortion as something that does not need to happen since people have the choice to not have sex, to use birth control, etc. It is not really a health care choice in that view unless someone is raped (I would say rape and incest but to me incest is just another word for rape).
They see a fertilized egg as life and that life (unlike other lives for some damn reason) should not be taken/destroyed (if we look at the US as a mother and other countries as fertilized eggs though they don't care.....)
On the left side some see guns as killers. Less guns equals less death so ban guns. Both sides want to ban something that comes down to personal choice.
My house, my life, if I want to buy a gun that is my business. Your body, your choice on your medical decisions. Somewhere in the middle people meet up - you can't buy nukes and you can't abort after so many months, etc.
Finding a common ground where all parties can have what they desire seems to be a hard thing to discuss some places. It becomes less about an intellectual discussion and more about religion or feelings and absolutes. And that does not work in a society made up of hundreds of millions of people of varying beliefs/ideals.
sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)I hope there will be comments sent in about this.