The comment by the March 29 letter “Signs are too easy” is worthy of a response.
She has a concept that there are people out there who are unfit parents who should never have had children.
She argues that “these people keep churning out babies that were conceived with no forethought whatsoever,” and more, she asks the question: “Is this wanting what is best for our children?”
The letter writer’s words.
The problem here is that no one speaks for the babies — or even for the so-called unfit parents.
But the writer has a solution: Turn it all over to Planned Parenthood.
They remove the problem.
What if these children who wouldn’t survive did live?
They would be thankful for their lives.
And they would tell you they blessed the gift of their life, even if they perhaps had to struggle with a poor environment while growing up, but still truly blessed the chance to be alive and become contributors to society, likely well beyond the writer’s minimal expectations.
How presumptive, how empty, how brazen the writer’s perspective is.
It is callous and wrong, and it regretfully expresses the current obsession of her advocate group to continue denying a miracle — that of life.
The letter writer should give the kids a break.
Don’t advocate killing them before they have a voice to celebrate their survival and their lives.
Willard Naslund,
Port Angeles