Editor,
Is sensationalism the only mode of education?
The anti-abortion advertisement of Oct. 18 was disturbing, especially to Drs. Espey and Leeman, who wrote a letter in the Oct. 22 Daily Lobo.
They are dismayed that this sort of "misinformation" is a "smear campaign against a viable and safe reproductive option for women." I loath sensationalism too, but to whom is this "procedure," an antiseptic-sounding term, viable and safe?
To a fetus? It seems cruel and malicious. To grandparents? Even to the woman? It grieves me to see women who weep over their abortions, even if it was years ago.
It might have provided a "solution," but not an answer. The "procedure" was presented as so benign. It apparently is ... physically, to the woman.
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But there is a whole lot more involved here besides a "procedure." And when can that be frankly discussed without sensationalism or patronizing pooh-poohing of a genuinely loaded moral dilemma?
Father Bob Keller, O.P.
UNM's Aquinas Newman Center
