I think this is exploitative!

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NIELSEN
Here is a letter I recently e-mailed to the Lewiston (Idaho) Morning
Tribune.
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So I say, save the money and energy you waste trying to prevent
contraception and abortion, and do something positive. Support planned
parenthood and help feed, clothe, house, educate, and medicate the surplus
millions we already have on our poor, old, overpopulated planet.

POOBAH
Bravo! At the risk of heading off into that most inflammatory of topics
called abortion, I remember an Operation Rescue spokesmen bragging once
about the couple of dozen "babies" he had personally saved by talking women
out of abortions they were about to have, and claiming that it was this
experience that made it all worthwhile.

I will go even further than you, Ralph.  I will accept that most of these
protesters find contraceptives to be immoral as well as abortion (although I
too have difficulty understanding the contradictory nature of this position
unless I assume misogyny). Given that, however, if these people really
wanted to save the lives of infants, they would put their legislative
efforts into ensuring that all women in this country (US) had access to
pre-natal care; the United States has an infant mortality rate that only a
third-world country could be proud of. Instead of busing protestors to
women's health clinics, they should be busing babies to be vaccinated. Just
a fractional decline in the infant mortality rate brought about by measures
we know work would save more lives than Mr. Terry and his ilk could ever
hope to turn away at clinic doors. Moreover, their would be no opposition to
these efforts, and they would be virtually guaranteed success.

I'm not holding my breath, however.
B.

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