This is the last in a series of 5 letters I have written to my local
newspaper since reading of the two college students who were arrested for
the murder of their newborn child. I have heard nothing from the paper.
I need to be heard. I am in pain. I don't think I'm crazy … but something
or someone is.
I would like to get this to Nightline. Ted Koppel is the most thoughtful
journalist I could think of. Thanks.
Brian J. McMahon
607-797-5016
A Closing Thought
I have been churning my stomach, my mind, my very being over the issues
of human life and human death and the rights of the individual to their
personal freedoms and philosophies. Personally, I believe that human life
is sacred and begins at conception (the thought and promise of new life)
and ends when that promise is fulfilled in the thoughtless void of brain
death. I believe that the medical doctor is a most noble professional who
attests to the dignity and sanctity of human life. There are many who vehemently
disagree with me.
In weighing their views, one phrase keeps coming to mind and gnawing
at me with a certain credibility: "They shoot horses, don't they?"
Yes, they do. And they spay and neuter pets … they put them to sleep …
they perform all sorts of humanitarian deeds. The veterinarian is another
noble professional.
Perhaps, within these two most noble professions there is an answer
to the wrenching issues of life and death which can allow both sides to
have their way. If we simply required veterinarians to be schooled in the
art of abortion and allowed them to prescribe today's abortion inducing
drugs we would have two professions which could support both sides of the
philosophical debate. Think about it. Vets already know how to put an animal
to sleep.
So when it came to the issues of life and death, if you felt like a
dog you could go to the vet. I'd still try to convince you that you were
more than a dog, but I'd let you pick your poison.
I may have condemned myself to an excruciatingly painful, slow death
for saying this. Perhaps that is what I am experiencing now.
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