Human life debate deserves more consideration
Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to your recent article regarding the raging debate over abortion in the United States. Though I have often read but rarely agreed with the opinions expressed in Shreve’s column (most primarily, the writer’s tendency toward broad generalizations), I have just as rarely – if ever – been so disappointed (disgusted, really) at the unbelievable crudeness and complete disregard for tact displayed when approaching such a highly sensitive and volatile subject.
This letter is in no way a personal diatribe; I am not writing to argue my opinions either way on the ethics of abortion, however strong those opinions may be. Rather, I am writing to contest the utter crassness and flippancy behind such comments as (and I choose this quote as one of MANY examples):
“Should the termination of a human fetus. who will never have the chance to be cool, be legal in the United States of America? Of course it should be.”
This article may sound juvenile enough to have been written by and for a seventh grader, but the fact is that we’re not 12, and regardless of personal opinion, the debate over human life deserves a bit more consideration than to suggest that its greatest ambition or potential is to “be cool”.
Perhaps next time, you could choose someone who has a little more knowledge on – and sensitivity toward – the subject about which they are debating. Shreve does no better job than the “local Baptist minister who probably doesn’t even know in what part of a woman’s body a uterus is located,” he so quickly denounces.
Thank you,
Kelsey Coulter
Sophomore
History Major
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Apr 14 2006. Filed under Opinion.
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