Republicans who support Trump fail a test of faith

To be honest, I lean to the left. But I love God and my country. I believe there should be restrictions on abortions. And I believe there are a lot of people in the country who feel the same way, people who are willing to listen and willing to compromise.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe many of them are Trump supporters.

I’ve listened to countless interviews with people who say something to the effect of, “I don’t approve of his philandering, his talk about and treatment of women, his bullying, his lying, his mocking of people with disabilities, his greed, his boorish behavior. But he’s pro-life, and I love what he’s doing with the country so I support him.”

To me, these people are saying they do not trust God to accomplish his will. They are trying to accomplish a goal they believe to be God’s will, but they are doing it through a means that is not moral.

I think it’s a test of faith; and I think they’ve failed.

Laws have never stopped abortion here or elsewhere

On June 10, 2019, the

printed part of a four-part series originally printed in 1966 on women in the Washington, D.C., area getting an estimated 1 million illegal abortions the previous year.

Abortion was illegal then, but the risk of criminal prosecution or the risks to their health did not deter women from ending about one out of every five pregnancies by abortion.

In 1951, my buddy got his 16-year-old girlfriend pregnant in Phoenix. We were all in our late teens and lived west of Sky Harbor, near the north banks of the dry Salt River, and the dry riverbed was our backyard.

My buddy told me the girl’s mother ❚ ❚ did not want her to have a baby so the mother took the pregnant girl, and him, down to the dry river bottom and performed an abortion on her with a clothes hanger, and it was bad with so much blood that my buddy vomited.

I don’t know what happened to the girl after that, but the event had a profound effect on my buddy.

In 1951, abortion was against the law in Arizona and could lead to a prison term, but that did not stop the girl’s mother, and the truth is that laws never do stop abortion and never will.

Look at statistics around the world and you will see that countries today that have very severe punishments for abortions, still have abortions. Antiabortion people who think they can pass laws and stop abortions need to face the reality that the anti- abortion laws will only force women to have dangerous, clothes-hanger abortions.

There are better ways to reduce abortions than passing laws that will lead to dangerous health consequences. Get smart, people, and pass laws that help our society and do not harm women.

Really, we can’t donate blood because of Mad Cow Disease

I get really tired of seeing the plea for blood donors. For many years, my husband, daughter and I donated as often as we could. Then in 2004, I went in to donate and a new question was asked:

Had I lived on an Army base in Germany

This is in response to a letter by Robert Berkovitz which appeared in the Monday edition of and in part to James Stewart, also with a letter on the same day.

Mr. Stewart asserts that Global Warming reaches irreversible levels by 2030, when failure to act dooms mankind to extinction and the deadline is past for saving the Earth from its fate.

In fact, 2030 is an arbitrary date evolving out of the Paris Climate Accord and is not scientifically relevant.

As to Mr. Berkovitz claiming that extreme action is required to “keep our planet livable,” the following may be instructive:

Contrary to the mantra propagated by alarmists and reinforced by the media that today’s concentration of CO2 is unprecedented, our current geologic period has seen the average levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s long history.

The average CO2 concentration for the preceding 600 million years was more than 2,600 ppm, nearly seven times the current amount of about 400 ppm, and a mere fraction of the highest recorded levels.

Beware the scientifically baseless and economically senseless policies, like the Green New Deal, that have disastrous costs and limited effectiveness.