LETTERS: THE STAIN OF ABORTION

To the editor:

When I was a small child, my father would often speak of a ruthless German leader who made the statement, "I will take over the United States without firing a shot."

In the 1992 election his promise was fulfilled. With a smirk on his face and the stroke of a pen, our leader signed the death warrant of still more of young, subjecting them to the most cruel and unusual punishment yet. As if the present method of taking the lives of the very young wasn't agonizing enough, he sentenced them to partial birth, just to satisfy a minute group of people.

Will we, in our later years, fall victim to the same stroke of a pen? Will the very ones the want to destroy be our savior in the future? Social Security is one of the largest pieces of the budget today. Just think how this country would prosper financially if there were no one to use it. So if we can't think our children, think of ourselves.

If Dan Rather would show only one partial-birth abortion on the news, as he shows the horrible deaths in Bosnia and the bloodbaths in Africa, there would be far less abortion in this country.

So when you go to the voting booth this November, unseen and unheard, the blood of the innocent still flows freely beneath our streets, which might be indistinguishable from our own as we become the elderly.

This stain is on our hands if we vote for any politician who has this complete disregard for human life.

Also remember, as I am sure that the people of Germany will not forget: When they came for the Jews, no one cared. When they came for the Catholics, now one cared. When they came for the rest, there was no one left to care.

JEROME SEYER

Cape Girardeau