The Mountain Xpress published a letter to the editor on June 5, 2019 that they headlined. “Abortion Protestors Should Go Home,” referring to us who go to Planned Parenthood on Saturday mornings. The letter writer, Mark Wonnacott made several claims. 1.We pro-lifers believe that abortion is murder. 2.We mostly only go out on warm, sunny days and go home when it starts drizzling. 3.We are very careful to stay within the confines of the law. 4.We obstruct the bus stop. He bases his claims on observations made from his vehicle at the traffic stop light. His conclusion is that we are either “moral cowards of the highest order”, or that we “use an imagined sense of moral superiority, an artfully constructed victim narrative and a position of incredibly social power to bully women… or both.” I guess the victim narrative would be about pre-natal children. Anyway, he recommends that we should “Stop it. Go home. Pay your taxes. Hug your children. Trust women.”
The letter generated over 104 comments so far and 3.3k reads, many of the comments from me. At some point the original letter writer joined the discussion. He’s trying to make the argument that unless I protest 24 hours a day, I don’t allow pregnant women the same choices I allow myself. It takes some contortions to reach that conclusion, and besides, his whole argument is an ad hominem that says nothing about abortion and the life of a human being in the womb.
Find the letter and comments HERE. I think you will find it all interesting.
