From Dennis Potter

Monroe

To the editor:

I watched an old episode of “Missing Persons” last night, in which a young woman became pregnant. Fearing what her mother would say, she hid the fact, contemplated abortion until it was too late and then gave birth to a baby girl. After being found, she and her new daughter were reunited with the now, grandmother, and everyone’s perspective was changed in an instant!

We have, as human beings, totally lost our perspective to the very point that we can’t even agree as to when life begins! It really comes down to a four-letter word, ‘WANT’. If you want it, it’s a baby; if not, it’s a disposable fetus.

I was born in 1956, at a time, when it ‘seemed’ at least, that everyone believed in a Universal Truth. Not so today. My Truth (God) is probably not your truth (your god). We have a gazillion laws today. Even so, many states fear the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, by passing or trying to, what they term, ‘strengthen their abortion laws’, by making it legal to abort the child during the last 2 months of pregnancy, and if that were not enough, as in the new Virginia law waiting in legislation regarding an abortion during that time, the embattled Democrat Governor Northam said, “I can tell you exactly what would happen. The ‘infant’ would be delivered. The ‘infant’ would be kept comfortable. The ‘infant’ would be resuscitated ‘if’ that’s what the mother and the family desire, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.” Realizing what he had said out loud, “the infant”, the obvious next question being, what then? He went to a fall back position and said, “This was really blown out of proportion.” Really? Sometimes The Truth just has its own way of coming out! Oh, by the way, did you know that this was immediately swept under the rug with his racially charged, how old of a high school photo issue that was just now found? Really?

Sometimes I feel as if we are living in a day just like 3,000 years ago, when the last verse of Judges says, “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.”