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I-1000: No

Letters to the Editor
Jerald Zito
Tri-City Herald, Sept. 24, 2008
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Thirty-five years ago the Supreme Court legalized abortion. Back then abortion supporters talked about poor women and rape victims, but today it is obvious that abortion is a matter of personal choice and convenience. Millions of Americans have passively accepted the idea that in order to have a comfortable life in modern society, a certain number of innocent human beings have to die. To be sure, they would never say such a thing, or even think it; which is why they do not see it.

I-1000 will extend this idea to our elderly. Again we hear rhetoric about "compassion" for the poor and suffering. Just as poor babies were to be "saved from a terrible life," now the sick and weak are to be saved from a "poor quality of life."

Society has learned to treat the weak among us with a kind of detached pity, like the prevention of cruelty to animals. But genuine compassion is not putting people out of their misery and it is more than alleviating pain. It means letting people know they have value even when they are weak, and they are loved from the day they come into our lives until the very end.

JERALD ZITO, Kennewick

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