I read with a growing sense of sorrow the letter from Beverly Cooper in your letters to the editor, Feb. 15. I, too, am appalled at the tragedy of violent attacks. However, rigorous logic and reasonable thought must also include the violence done to innocent unborn children at the abortion clinics.
I strongly condemn the acts of those who would murder in the misapprehension that their act of violence is justified because of the violence done to unborn children. It is senseless and will only serve to harden the hearts of those whose hearts must be softened if the tragedy of abortion is to be stopped.However, these attacks are a reaction to the daily slaughter of the innocents. Violence begets violence. It is the abortion doctors of death who are creating these Frankenstein monsters of hate. Not the so called "rhetoric of hate."
Just as the "legal" but reprehensible and immoral institution of slavery begot John Brown and bloody Kansas before the Civil War, the blood on abortionists' hands is the harbinger of modern misguided "Mr. Browns."
What can I say to you in "civil discourse"? I can't find the middle ground. You talk of "caring people," and I see blood on your hands. You, no doubt, call this hate speech. You want me to talk in clinical jargon to disguise the butchery you condone. OK. Here is my "passionate give." Can you take? Please examine the deadening and numbing influence that abortion slaughterhouses have on the conscience of society. Don't wish the little ones away with the sophistry that they are not human. They move, they feel pain, and if given just a little more time . . . well you know the rest. Yes, let's stop the violence -- all the violence.
Leonard Carson
Salt Lake City