April 22, 2014
Monday PM

I have refrained from using names in my postings, to be sensitive to other people's lives, but I must say one last thing to Rob Holston. I believe that anyone who would post the insensitive and horrible things you have posted needs to see a councilor. I am speaking not about his cause, because everyone has the right to believe what they want, and if he wants to think abortion is murder, that is his right. What I have an issue with is how he is presenting his beliefs. I mean wanting to chop up living, breathing puppies is a bad sign. Calling me a murderer, who is duped by the medical profession and science means that something does need to be addressed, but not by me.

I used the word idiotic, to mean someone who is not using reason and is self-defeating. I must say that the description is accurate so far.

I would like to reiterate that not every woman is capable of having a child. I have never said that because a child might be deformed it should be aborted, nor have I said that abortion should be taken lightly.

With the news talking about what makes a medically necessary abortion, so that it may be covered under the health care act, it is easy to become lost in one rhetoric or another. Modern religion may dictate that abortion is murder, even if it will save a mother's life, and science may say that abortion should be used to control populations. I say all the variables are not black and white.

I used to be very anti-abortion, especially when I did a report on it in high school and discovered the extremes of late term abortions (note I have not used the proper term "procedure"). So what changed my mind? I had to make the decision, and I had to live with whatever decision that I made. I did, I had an abortion to save myself from horrible pain and agony, and save my body for a healthy baby in the future. So am I wrong? Am I a murderer? I will let god judge, because I can't even squash a bug without being squeamish, and I can't eat a piece of meat or burn wood without giving thanks to the beings that died and the one who created them. So I will wait for God's decision. And I welcome anyone who wants to talk with me about this. I am not ashamed or shy, and I will not avoid tough situations just because someone doesn't agree with me.

Marie Zellmer
Ketchikan, Alaska

Received April 17, 2014 - Published April 22, 2014

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