Published: May 06, 2008 09:32 pm            

LETTERS: Supporting pregnancy support centers

Supporting pregnancy support centers

Every day in this country over 3,000 pregnant women are ending the lives of the babies in their womb through abortion. What was once considered a “miracle of life” and a “gift from God” has been reduced to a woman’s “choice.”

Imagine if you will that every day thousands of eagles were destroying the eggs in their nests. It would make headline news. We would be contacting the EPA, scientists and all sorts of agencies to find out why the eagles were doing this unnatural activity. We would do all we could to protect those eagle eggs from being destroyed.

Don’t these aborted babies deserve our same concern? Shouldn’t we be looking into why this is occurring and what can be done to stop this also unnatural practice? Would we be content to allow those eagles to continue destroying their eggs, concluding that it is simply their choice?

There are pregnancy support centers all across the country to help answer this question. They are there to assist pregnant women look at why they might think that abortion is the best alternative. These centers will help them see that it is not their only choice. They will guide them to the resources available to let them make the right decision for themselves and their babies.

If you or someone you know is pregnant and not sure where to turn, contact your local pregnancy support center today.

Kathleen J. Hess

Youngstown



When is enough school tax abuse enough?

The Wilson Central School District now has a serious problem assigning responsibility for the hazing event.

It seems to me that responsibility is in the coach’s corner, 100 percent of the time, and this responsibility begins when the teams leave the Wilson school yard and ends only when the teams are released from the Wilson school yard property on return to Wilson.

Now the coaches have been arrested with pay. Does this mean that they will sit 40 hours a week in the district’s “Rubber Room” playing cards, reading magazines and flittering away their time? It has been reported that the time needed to obtain a decision to deny tenure or reinstate the teachers may take at least four months for investigators in the school system to decide whether to bring formal charges.

If they do bring charges, it takes an average of nine more months for a hearing and another six months for a decision.

We taxpayers (state and local) may pay these two coaches for sitting in the “Rubber Room” until 2010 or beyond.

Isn’t it time for the school unions to begin acting like responsible citizens and eliminate the supersized road blocks to justice?

Eugene Wilke

Wheatfield

        

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