PRO CHOICE/WAR/ABORTION

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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Thursday, July 12, 2018
PRO CHOICE/WAR/ABORTION
7/12/2018
 
Hello, Everyone!
 
I'm at it again - the way I think I can be most effective - by the written word.  This one is like the last one - a letter to the editor of our local paper - The Laramie Boomerang.  My previous letter is still unprinted and may forever be unprinted - as this one might be too; but it does not hurt to try.  Right?  As per usual, read my current opinion or not as you choose.  It is about the current issue of abortion - especially since it will likely be a very big issue in the Senate's consideration of President Trump's current nominee to the Supreme Court.  I do not mention that in my letter, but it is really why I am choosing to speak up on the issue - and like other letters, I will forward this one to my Senators and Representative in Congress.  We will see how it goes.
 
All is Well!  Nancy & I will be marching in a parade this Saturday to join in the Laramie Jubilee Days Celebration that takes place here in Laramie every July around this time.  Nancy will be riding on a float - and I may be walking beside it; but we will both be waving at bystanders as we go by.  Hooray for Freedom!  Actually, we will be part of a celebration within a celebration.  It is our 150th year as a Territory; and Nancy & I will be part of that.
 
Be in touch.  Hope you appreciate my editorial.  It is a hot subject, but I don't think it should be.  We ought to respect each other's right to think for ourselves and not insist that others march down our lane.  Don't you agree?
 
By for now!
 
Gently,
 
Francis William Bessler
& Nancy Shaw
Laramie, Wyoming
www.una-bella-vita.com
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Will (Frank) Bessler
To: Laramie Boomerang Editorials
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 01:20 PM
Subject: Letters to the Editor:PRO-CHOICE, WAR, & ABORTION

 
7/12/2018
 
From:
Francis William Bessler
4500 Meadowlark Lane
Laramie, Wyo.  82070
307-742-7428
 
To:
Laramie Boomerang: Letters to the Editor:
 
Hi, Laramie Boomerang - Letters to the Editor:
 
Please print the following when you can.  I do have a letter in waiting, so to speak - my patriotic song: TWINGE AT MY HEART.  If possible, it would be nice if both could be printed on the same day - to emphasize my focus of the current letter: CHOICE; but do as you wish.  The current letter is 378 words.  I know that is in excess of your desired limit of 350.  If that is an issue, let me know - and I will whittle it down.  OK?  
 
Thanks so much!
 
Francis William Bessler
 

Subject:PRO CHOICE, WAR, & ABORTION

 

 

Personally, I am anti-war and anti-abortion, but I am not for deciding those issues for others.  In 1966, during the Vietnam War, I tried to serve in the U.S. NAVY, then in the U.S. AIR FORCE, then in the U.S. ARMY, not as a soldier, but as a hospital corpsman.  I strongly disagreed with our participation in that war, but I thought that as an American, I should serve in some way.  I told myself - you don't have to agree with another's right to be a soldier to serve as someone who is willing to nurse a wounded soldier.  My application was denied, by all three branches of our military, one after another.  Why?  Because I had a "bad ear." 

 

But my point is that my most treasured right as an American is to have the right to CHOOSE.  I do not believe in war, but I do believe in healing someone with an injury.  So, what difference does it make that I do not believe in war?  Likewise, I do not believe in abortion; but I do not think I have the right to impose my choice on another who believes in abortion anymore than I have the right to stop a person from being a soldier.  The issue is CHOICE, not some particular activity.

 

How many who are pro-war are also anti-abortion?  You who are pro-war but anti-abortion ought to think about it.  Why are you so against another's right to CHOOSE that in which you do not believe, but are so willing to be inconsistent in your belief?  Why are you so against a pregnant person's right to try and "prevent" an unwanted  life, but are for a soldier's right to take another's life in war - or any other action that might take a life? 

 

Did our CONSTITUTION address an issue like abortion? No, but that was probably because it was not an issue when it was written; but CHOICE - and the right to choose was an issue - and it is implied by that feature that if abortion had been an issue, it would have been treated as a CHOICE - much like our right to "choose" a religion.  Thanks for listening - to one who treasures the right to "choose."