My latest column for the
Aitkin Independent Age contains my response to Planned Parenthood's letter, but it's mainly about something much more delightful.
Though I wrote of
abortion facilities in general, only mentioning Planned Parenthood as
where Tonya Reaves died, a representative thereof felt the need to
respond to my Aug. 31 column in a Sept. 21 letter to the editor.
I’m pleased. As
they say of video gaming, if no one’s shooting at you, you’re not going
in the right direction. The only actual rebuttal they made to anything I
said was the assertion that they comply with various safety
regulations. They note their regulation through the Board of Medical
Practice. The Board of Medical Practice only licenses practitioners, not
facilities. Individual practitioners may be required to have licenses,
but abortion facilities are not licensed as Outpatient Surgical Centers,
like every other non-hospital facility where surgery is performed has
to be; neither are they subject to inspections, not mentioned by the
letter.
And of course there was absolutely no mention of
my main point, which I will repeat and emphasize: even in the cleanest
and most professional facilities, someone dies in every single abortion
procedure. That’s the point of the procedure.
That’s all I have to say about that, so I’ll turn
to a much lighter topic: collective nouns applied to football.
Collective nouns are one of the most amusing parts of English grammar:
the words for groups of various things, especially animals, are often
unexpected and strange. Examples: a murder of crows, an unkindness of
ravens, a smack of jellyfish, a wisdom of wombats. I’m sure we all find
the one for mosquitoes accurate: a scourge.
Read the rest here.
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