Killingfornoapparentreason

Over the past couple of weeks, we, the people of the most powerful country in the world, have been falling apart.

We have been faced with a new crisis in the Persian Gulf and on the home front, we have been faced with having to deal with death and murder on our own turf.

What really bothers me is the fact that we seem to be always so involved with the problems in other countries and not our own.

On Oct. 23, in Buffalo, NY, Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot in his home by a sniper's bullet.

Slepian was a popular man, not by society's eyes, but by his family's eyes. He was killed because he was a man who did his job. He was killed because he was a doctor who performed abortions for a living.

For some time now, I have seen all the sorrow and unhappiness that has happened because of abortion. People crying and people sad to see the loved ones go. Too bad it has been the families of killed abortion doctors that have been doing all the crying.

I am not afraid to say that I'm a believer in abortion. I don't think that it is a good thing to take the life of a person, but it is not a bad thing, either. abortions get it the worst?

When a lawyer goes to work, he might have to defend somebody who is guilty of a certain crime. If he gets his defendant off, then he has done his job. It does not mean that the lawyer is happy with what he has done. It just means he did his job.

JOE ELLIOTT

To understand what I'm trying to say, you need to look at a few things. A baby, when killed in the mother's womb, is not at all developed. It could not develop if the mother were to give birth. It would die.

It is hard to believe that people would kill to prove a point, which makes me think that people are really stupid when it comes to abortion.

These nut-cases that go around and preach the word of God, telling everybody not to kill, can tum around and kill somebody, just to prove a point. It does not make that much sense to me. Why do the people that perform the

So, why do we find it so necessary to kill people to try and stop killing people? What are we trying to prove? What lesson are we showing for our future generations? We are showing them that we are a bunch of savages.

It amazes me even more to have read an article in Newsweek about abortion doctors who have been receiving letters in the mail containing the words, "You have just been contaminated with the Anthrax virus."

Can you believe that? People had been sending letters allegedly filled with deadly nerve gas just to prove a point.

I'm not trying to say that all pro-life activists are bad, but all you need is one person to make the water dirty.

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