Comments on Roe v. Wade
Dear Editor;
State Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino’s letter in the October 28th edition prompts a rebuttal. Seemingly, the main reason he published this is to gain support for new abortion laws from the state legislature if Roe v. Wade is overturned in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Senator basically called any pro-life group or individual, including Catholics, extremists who desire to shame women that want to have an abortion or to give them wrong information. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. Pro-lifers give accurate information about fetal development, including ultrasounds, so the woman and man involved are fully informed. A high percentage of them will decide to keep the baby when they have this information, especially after viewing of an ultrasound. Ortiz y Pino calls this a distraction to other issues of New Mexicans, but what really is a distraction is his using the rare cases to justify all abortions. It’s a tactic that is often employed by those promoting abortion, as to deflect from the real reason that most women have them, which is for convenience sake. He cited two published cases of women who had abortions because of health reasons for the child. Sometimes women are told to abort because of a dire diagnosis for the unborn baby. There have been numerous occasions where the doctors were wrong about their analysis. Also, often doctors highly suggest women should abort their babies diagnosed with Down syndrome, which results in over 90% of them killed in the womb.
It’s interesting that he never mentioned what is being destroyed in an abortion. Every embryology textbook states that life begins at conception, and there are factors of size, level of development, location, and degree of dependency that are also shared by those outside the womb. In our culture, many believe those reasons justify killing a human in the womb, which occurs thousands of times a year in New Mexico.
Women are often pressured to abort from their partner, parents, or spouse. Pro-life pregnancy centers and many other pro-lifers are there to tell them they don’t have to abort by offering financial, emotional, lodging, medical, and many other types of support, even well after the baby is born. There are also many groups that pro-lifers support that offer post-abortion counselling. The people Ortiz y Pino calls extremists are often in front of abortion facilities to offer help to women and men at that point of their lives and beyond. I have never seen a “prochoice” person out there offering them another choice.
The Senator states his Catholic faith and the teaching of Jesus compels him to help others, but obviously to him this doesn’t include those humans yet to be born. His pro-abortion beliefs go totally against the Catholic religion and Christianity in general.
Along with helping women support their born child, shouldn’t we also focus on the human inside the womb and how to protect that life from being destroyed by abortion?
Monte Harms
Campaign finance?
Dear Editor;
Well I think I got Representative Lee Alcon’s attention from the letter he wrote in the Cibola Citizen on 10-28-20. Lee tells me I am wrong about him in my earlier letter. Lee advised getting information about votes absentee was perfectly legal by NM law, unfortunately he failed to cite said law. I have been asked by the Editor of the same paper to make sure I cite my comments with a link page when quoting other sources. I guess Representative Alcon is exempt from that. I did find some of his other comments interesting about how one could pay for this information and remembered when I ran for Cibola County Probate Judge some years back I had to report all the money I got to the state. So I looked it up at the following web site https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/ind ex.html#/explore/candidate. Lee is getting a lot of money over all the other candidates including the one running against him: (ALCON, ELISEO $20,801.23), (CHAVEZ, KAREN VANESSA $2,402.82).
Quite a difference so I opened deeper and found the top 5 donations. 1. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION $3,000.00 2. Committee on Individual Responsibility $2,500.00 3. AFT NEW MEXICO PUBLIC EDUCATION PROUD $1,500.00 4. NMFIREPAC $1,000.00 5. IBEW PAC VOLUNTARY FUND $1,000.00. For Vanessa: 1. Committee to Elect James Stickler $500.00 2. Jurkens, Leetra G $500.00 3. Holmes, Earl A $500.00 4. Crowder, Randy $250.00 5. NMHRCC-New Mexico House Republican Campaign Committee $76.41.
Vanessa’s all look normal with no big UNION’S. I Goggled TOP 3 of Lee’s donators. United Food & Commercial Workers Union Top Affiliates: UFCW Local 455 • UFCW Local 1 UFCW Local 152 2020 CONTRIBUTIONS $5,710,085 LOBBYING $800,000 OUTSIDE SPENDING $95,693. Committee on Individual Responsibility Opening balance $172,703.90 Total contributions $38,437.43 Total expenditures $0.00 Closing balance $211,141.33. National Education Association NM Cash and spending June 30, 2020 Opening balance $49,615.65 Total contributions $6,562.51 Total expenditures $1,000.00 Closing balance $55,178.16.
It should be obvious Lee is getting money from folks that have a lot of money to throw around versa he is Republican opponent. I think this is what happens when you in office too long you owe too many people for giving you lots of money to help you pay for stuff like getting the information on who voted absentee as well as other things. In the same paper today page AS there is a story on how they are trying to keep the paper mill open and save jobs.
Alcon said in his letter “The market and investors are buying clean energy. Times are changing. They may also change back. You can never count on minerals and investments. The Republican Party has promised oil refineries and uranium mines. They have had no success brining jobs to Cibola County. Yet voters keep giving them opportunities. We are at the will of the investors on Wall Street.” Well you decide what he meant, remember vote REPULICAN!
Mr. Harry L. Hall
USAF Vet Retired Police
Officer
Fentanyl on the streets
Dear Editor;
Fentanyl is the strongest opiate on the streets right now and it’s estimated to be 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. Not only is fentanyl sold on the streets “as is,” but it’s also mixed into other drugs by dealers who have no regard for human life; all they care about is taking the addict’s money. Fentanyl has recently been found not only in heroin supplies, but it’s also been found in other illicit drugs like co-caine and marijuana. Unsuspecting addicts consume the drug in the amounts they’re used to, completely oblivious to the fact that they are about to ingest a lethal dose of fentanyl. Fentanyl affects the opiate receptors of the brain and crosses through the blood-brain bather and creates an intense euphoria and addiction in the user much like heroin. Fentanyl was originally only supposed to be indicated for cancer patients and for “end-of-life” pain. Fentanyl was rarely ever prescribed as a “take-home” medicine for chronic pain or painful disorders and never used outside of a hospital. Not only is fentanyl available on nearly every street corner nationwide, it’s also being widely distributed throughout the country after being imported from China. In order to fmally get a grip on the growing opiate epidemic, doctors need to stop over-prescribing opiates so as to not create new addicts and effective drug rehab needs to be made available to anyone who needs it. Addiction doesn’t care who you are, how you were raised, or where you’re from; it can affect anyone. Another person becoming an unfortunate statistic is one too many.
For more information on fentanyl, go to hftps://www.narcononcolorado.org/blog/sadly-illicit-fenta nyl-is-not-going-away-anytimesoon.htm If you are in need of a referral to a treatment center, call us at 877-841-5509
Jason Good
Fort Collins Colorado
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