Letters to the editor: Reminder of what abortion means; wolves important to ecosystem
Don’t forget abortion definition
With politics coming into the forefront, so isn’t the word abortion.
Many are confusing abortion with healthcare. True healthcare treats both the mother and the preborn child with dignity and respect. Perhaps some need to be reminded of the definition of abortion. Abortion: the intentional killing of an innocent preborn child.
Knowledgeable people know it’s been proven that life begins at conception. That’s why there’s a heartbeat in 21 days, a certain proof of life. It reminds me of a tiny seed before it grows into a beautiful flower.
One may argue that it’s a woman’s body and she has the right to choose if she wants to let the baby continue to live and grow in her body or have an abortion, as defined earlier. Yes, it is the woman’s body that is carrying the body of another live person. It’s a body that has a different DNA and blood type than hers, so it can’t be her body, but another different live person who God has given a body and soul of its own. A woman has the privilege of nurturing it until the birth when she can be called mother,
Let’s elect leaders who will support good health care for the pregnant woman so her baby will get to cry.
Let the babies cry.
Theresa Schultz, Thousand Oaks
Wolves are valuable to ecosystem
Re: Keith Gallagher’s April 16 letter, “Wolves don’t need protection”:
It is difficult to believe The Star would publish a letter so loaded with misinformation.
His sister owned a dog/wolf hybrid. The sister invited the children of the writer to come play with the “beast.” Somehow, this proves wolves (wild, pure wolves, not domesticated hybrids) are going to kill children. And the sister apparently can take the “beast” to a public park without dire consequences.
Wolves are being protected and reintroduced because they play a valuable part in healthy ecosystems, controlling deer populations that over breed and strip trees, causing forests to become unhealthy and deer to starve.
Ranchers, on the other hand, are businesses, looking to maximize profit, investing in protections for their product (beef) costs money. They already enjoy low costs for feed by grazing (and degrading) public land that our tax dollars pay for.
I understand that raising cattle is a tough business to make profit. Blame the middlemen who hold them hostage, not the wolves, who are God-created citizens of the lands ranchers took from them.
Bonnie Smith, Santa Paula
This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Letters: Reminder of what abortion means; wolves important to ecosystem
