Dear Editor,
I find I have to come to the support of David Kaeini after the
attack on him by James Brescoll in the Feb. 4 Gilroy Dispatch.
The letter by James Brescoll attempts to discredit Kaeini’s
statement regarding abortion and the Catholic Church.
Dear Editor,
I find I have to come to the support of David Kaeini after the attack on him by James Brescoll in the Feb. 4 Gilroy Dispatch.
The letter by James Brescoll attempts to discredit Kaeini’s statement regarding abortion and the Catholic Church. He challenges Kaeini’s statement that “aborting this life at any stage is killing that life.” Brescoll responds: “It isn’t a ‘life’ it is a parasite within a woman’s body.” It may be a parasite, but it is a living parasite.
To Brescoll’s surprise, science has determined that life is perpetuated at conception and throughout the pregnancy. The sperm is a living cell, the ovum is a living cell. Their union merely perpetuates the living matter into a form now capable of great potentialities: maybe another Beethoven, Rembrandt or Henry Ford. Microbiology has proven that even the simplest cell is in reality a very complex living organism. Within the sperm cell are billions and billions of stored bit of information – a far greater number than any manmade computer could ever begin to match. Just think, all this information in a glob the size of the head of a pin.
Brescoll goes on to castigate Kaeini as “beyond religious hysteria, beyond religious zealotry” in his opposition to abortion. Brescoll’s diatribe is but “smoke and mirrors” obscuring the fact that abortion is not the fundamental problem – a breakdown of morality in society is.
A strong man has little or no need of society. He can readily defend himself. Weaker members must band together to protect themselves from the strong man. The role of society is to protect its weaker members and none in society is weaker or more helpless than the unborn child.
We are seeing a progressive and sinister breakdown of morality in the acceptance of abortion, same sex marriage, adultery, unwed teenage pregnancies and easy divorce. Collectively it is a serious threat to the family – the foundation of society and a civilization.
If society fails to protect the unborn, it has lost is need for existence, and soon forfeits all authority to the strong man. The strong man becomes a dictator and liberty and freedom vanish, a prelude to demise of the nation. In our contemporary society VIRTUE, the epitome of civilization, has been relegated to the dust-bin of antiquity.
J.G. McCormack, Gilroy
