Abortion replaces natural selection

Our numbers are growing, constantly growing, spurred on by the incredibly thoughtless rhetoric as demonstrated by the two-page display ads recently found in this, and one would suppose, other newspapers.

Used as the motivator for this display of thoughtlessness is the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, that nearly innocent bystander which has become the distraction used by religions to steer away actual thinking of those who might dare to consider what this overwhelming multitude is actually doing to our one and only planet.

Every species on earth naturally encounters limiting factors that balance the species numbers against available resources of the planet; every one, that is, except homo sapien. We, motivated by arrogance and made possible by questionable intelligence, have been able to often thwart nature’s stumbling blocks designed to control our overpopulation, over consumption and depletion of this earth’s finite resources such as air, water and space.

A correlation between the cancers that ravage our own bodies and the presence of our vast and growing out-of-control numbers on this planet cannot be avoided. Yet we have two full pages of newsprint paid for by people who, we are sure, consider themselves wise and knowledgeable but find it impossible to grasp the idea that we, like every other creature on this globe, must obey nature’s laws of supply and demand.

Instead, this group and many others demand total Right To Life be our mantra as dictated to us by someone not conversant with the facts of life, when in reality it is not now or ever will be possible or desirable. Instead, Fact Not Faith as a mantra would allow a far more realistic assessment of our present and our future.

J.K. Cardwell

Elgin