Billboards of Lies
Not long ago, traveling north on I-95 near Boca Raton, I viewed a billboard with the words, “Barack Obama supports abortion.”
Now it’s the president’s business to file charges of libel. But if my name were attached to that – and I have faced such a situation from a judgmental person who calls herself a “Christian” – I would be filing charges of libel.
I am against abortion, but I am also pro-choice. I would work to encourage, if at all possible, someone whom I loved NOT to get an abortion. I would frown upon anyone who uses abortion as a means of contraception. Such a move shows a lack of responsibility.
But when it comes down to it, the choice of an abortion resides with the woman carrying the fetus. I would also argue that the male who was involved in the action should have a say in the decision as well. But the ultimate decision is the female carrying the fetus.
I support abortion in cases of rape and I don’t want to change the definition of rape – as does Allen West.
In 1901, the world lost my great-grandmother, Angeline MacLennon Eldridge, and her unborn child in pregnancy. I have thought about this: what if abortions DID exist in those days? Would my great-grandmother been enabled to make a decision which would have saved HER life and allowed her to continue to have OTHER babies? The anti-abortion advertisements about the loss of a child on a swing set is just as effective when considering the loss of life of mother AND baby, when abortions were illegal.
I believe in a positive world working to increase knowledge about being responsible, not a negative world which chooses to criminalize young women. A negative world helps create an abortion black market which lacks hygiene, leading to the death of young females who might, at one point, forget the need to take responsibility. And even then, we need to recognize that we are imperfect human beings with hormones raging at a young age. We need to effectively come to grips with this situation, rather than invoking boneheaded criminalization solutions to deal with something called … HUMANS.
We are not “economic units,” as the character, Harvey Nigel Bains, says on the Britcom, Waiting for God… “We the people…” Stop the lies, particularly those lies about President Obama and the lies on billboards purchased by high-powered people who thrive on deception and lying.
Tioga Herald 
Stupidity without the Truth
Dear Editors:
People like Murphy, who wrote “My Turn” on Sunday, March 13, 2022, and a nearby photo of bloviating Trump, get their ideas for support of “strong and independent” America because they are mesmerized by too much false crap out there which hides the truth.
In reality, Trump, McConnell, DeSantis, Santorum, Rick Scott, Scott Walker, among others, are allied with Putin and other dictators in the world. They hide their affiliation. But they say the same things, particularly about bigotry towards the LGBTQ+, all the time.
They also are all in support of control and power, with the Koch brothers, of oil as a fuel. They don’t want alternative fuels to be developed. They want to drill off-shore in the USA and build projects like the Keystone pipeline (and others). What better way for Putin and these dictators to divide and conquer, but to have Putin start a war in Ukraine and force gasoline prices sky-high? After all, they have worked to sabotage the development of alternative fuels and green technologies. They accomplished this with four years of Trump in power, after LOOSING the popular vote to Hillary in 2016.
Being upset at losing in 2020, what better way but to lie about fraud in elections which, even many Republicans are saying, does not exist, especially to the extent claimed.
It’s about time Murphy and others learn the truth, rather than dwelling on the lies and fake news.
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