Re: “Why don’t we all choose life?,” Dec. 26 My Turn column.
Lynn Grandon, director of the Office of Respect Life at Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Denver, admonishes Dottie Lamm for advocating for the services of Planned Parenthood and for asking, “So why aren’t we the ones labeled ‘pro-life’?”
This is both fascinating and typical of what we have come to expect from the Roman Catholic Church. I wonder if historical figures like John Wycliff, the Knights Templar, Joan of Arc, or Galileo felt the tender grace of the church’s “pro-life” stance? Or more recently how the countless masses of defenseless children abused by Roman Catholic priests fit into this hypocritical dogma of “life being valuable at every age and every stage”?
Pregnancy resources and counseling from the Catholic Church do little to solve the underlying problem surrounding abortions: the lack of preventive resources to stop unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
If the Catholic Church were truly “pro-life,” then it would turn preaching into action and focus on prevention of unwanted pregnancies. I could believe this mission more as a defense of human life and dignity than its current one.
Colin Catel, Denver
This letter was published in the Jan. 4 edition.This was a very poignant response to Dottie Lamm’s Dec. 13 column (“Who is really ‘pro-life’ anyway?”) by Lynn Grandon. How can those who support abortion be pro-life when a life is being destroyed?
It would be great if Planned Parenthood was truly concerned about women’s care. Thank you to Grandon for her invitation to visit some truly amazing facilities that do provide safe and pro-life health care to women.
Karen Carlson, Brighton
This letter was published in the Jan. 4 edition.Given that three times Coloradans have overwhelmingly defeated personhood amendments, I would state that Lynn Grandon is categorically wrong when she says “everyone” accepts that abortion kills nascent human life. I accept that the unborn have existence. However, they have no characteristics in common with a person outside of biological existence and DNA. It denigrates humanity, and certainly goes against my religious beliefs, to lower personhood to this level. There is a distinct difference between life and existence. Grandon is not pro-life, she is pro-existence. This seems odd for a person who works in the area she does. I am pro-life. I respect and honor a person’s choices.
Mark Harvey, Arvada
This letter was published in the Jan. 4 edition.
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