HE SAYS, SHE SAYS

Your Mother’s Day cover story, “Open for Business, Fighting for Choice” (Artvoice v5n19) neglects salient parts of the abortion story. First and foremost, business is about money, yet no abortionist ever wants to talk about their take or pricelist. Last year, Planned Parenthood alone took in over $104 million in surgical abortions, up six percent, not counting the $265 million annual taxpayer subsidy.

While your article has the de riguer mention of how pre-Roe v. Wade abortionists sometimes botched the job, never is any mention made of the legal butchery that continues. Abortion, legal or illegal, remains as shady as it ever was, attracting the washouts and losers of the medical community. No one spends years of effort and tens of thousands of dollars to become a doctor in order to be known as an abortionist.

Abortion remains the most unregulated surgical industry in the nation. It is easier for a daughter to get her insides ripped out than it is for her to get a tooth extracted. Cases of sexual abuse in abortion clinics abound. Planned Parenthood is being sued for not reporting several proven instances of statutory rape. Why does an abortionist not have to have a specialty in ob/gyn? Why are there no special licensing requirements for the staff of abortion clinics, like there are in veterinarian clinics? How about laws about the presence of emergency equipment in case a complication should arise, or regulations about how such an emergency should be handled, instead of sending a bleeding girl back to her apartment after taking her or her boyfriend’s money?

The abortionist in your piece claims “Anything goes on TV now.” Then why, in the 33 years since abortion on demand for all nine months was made law of the land, has an abortion never been shown on television? If the American public ever saw a perfectly formed human fetus scalded alive by saline solution, or have its arms and legs torn apart in utero, the abortion lobby would fold overnight, its political and financial bulwark notwithstanding, its lies about fetal pain exposed. Silent Scream, the pro-life classic produced by the former Park Avenue abortionist Bernard Nathanson, has never been seen on PBS or any other network and his books are not on library shelves.

The abortionist wonders why she felt unwelcome at Childrens Hospital. What could possibly be more Orwellian than an expectant mother coming to a Childrens Hospital to have her unborn child killed?

Yet this is the world we live in today. “The City’s Best Known Abortion Clinic,” where motherhood is obliterated, gets free publicity on Mother’s Day. If next year you want to try something different, give free ads to the florists, restaurateurs and spa operators who paid for their publicity in Artvoice advertising something nice for moms.

Jim Turner

Buffalo

Thank you for the cover story “Open for Business, Fighting for Choice” that spotlighted the women who work to provide abortion services in Buffalo. It’s a disgrace that even though 40 percent of women in this country will have an abortion, they are still made to feel judged, stigmatized and part of some tiny minority of people who have terribly messed up their lives. Abortion may not be the right choice for every woman, but it is nothing to be ashamed of. And while I am greatful to Artvoice for taking note of this important issue, twice the thanks go to the clinic workers who were brave enough to come forward and tell their stories.

Jessica Keltz

Buffalo

WE THINK IT’S FOR YOU, NIMAN

It all boils down to that the United States can’t be an isolationist country, and that the world does need us. Do the liberals really count on the UN, EU, France, Germany, Russia, to do anything to help the world? Hell no!

For all the countries and people who hate the USA, they’d be in a much more miserable world without us. The liberal Democrats who want us to put our tails between our legs and run away from a band of low-life Muslim zealot losers who can only mount attacks by using suicide car bombs and IEDs are pathetic.

Our military is the best in the world and will be for a very, very long time to come. Wars start because of the need for natural resources and power and control. Some wars are because of ethnic and religious grounds. The idea of going into Iraq was a tough one, but it was the right one. Mistakes were made, but that happens in wartime. This is bigger than just Iraq and the whole Middle East—this war will decide what the world will be like in the future. Will terrorists run rampant and free to kill and maim without any response? Will the US and other countries be held hostage because of oil being controlled by religious fanatics?

I’m sick and tired of the left-wing liberals attacking what we are trying to accomplish here, because of their own political agenda. The liberals don’t have a plan for anything, unless you count complete surrender of our country to the terrorists.

James Ziolkowski

Buffalo

CORRECTIONS:

In our review of Till Death Do Us Art (“In the Margins,” Artvoice v5n19), we mispelled the author’s last name: It’s Pomerhn. Also, the book is not self-published but put out by Scintillating Press Publications, and is available for $10 (www.freewebs.com/scintillatingpublications).

In the same issue, we misnamed the winner of Best Dance Club in our Best of Buffalo poll. The winner is Club Marcella.