LETTERS
LETTERS to the Editor Witch Hunt at Parris Island Jim Lynch's "Witch Hunt at Parris Island" (March issue) was enlightening, particularly for those who read the roadside billboards recruiting...
...anyone who calls us reactionary is mistaken or lying...
...All citizens were excluded when Roe v. Wade oversimplified the issue...
...One doesn't have to watch Silent Scream to know that most of the sentient parts of the fetus are formed between the tenth and twelfth weeks...
...Brooke Magid Hart Ashland, Wisconsin The Peace Movement Congratulations on the fine articles about the future of the peace movement (January issue), which put many important ideas and worthwhile goals before us...
...If this argument serves, why did you espouse civil rights in the 1960s...
...The problem is one of maldistribution due to arrangements imposed on the Third World by the likes of Molly Ivins's ill-considered candidate for hero worship, George Shultz (Small Favors, March issue...
...The question that comes to mind is this: Given the anti-homosexual bias of the military, what would happen if the draft were restored...
...What enables them to sustain their commitment and stay with us for the long haul...
...Readers who are offended by the "progressive" use of these illustrations should find solace in the safe surroundings of Time or Newsweek...
...Father Paul Kabat, OMI Nashville, Illinois Slaughterhouse >89 Though I agree with Sue Coe that corporate agriculture and the humane treatment of livestock are often at odds ("Slaughterhouse '89," March issue), note that a sow and the fourteen pigs she raises eat about four tons of feed a year, containing 550 pounds of 44 per cent protein soybean meal...
...No doubt he would face many of the same difficulties Garvey describes in his story about his 1986 and 1988 Wisconsin campaigns for the U.S...
...For The Progressive to misconstrue the intricate in-cisiveness of Friedrich Wil-helm Nietzsche and vilify him by association is just plain moronic...
...Do women who have abortions lose the right to "make up their own minds" if, after the experience, they decide to oppose it...
...Alan J. Port, DVM Athens, Illinois Praise goes to artist Sue Coe and to The Progressive for publishing her vivid, senses-awakening art...
...Meat is efficient, abundant, inexpensive, nutritious, and tasty...
...Would we have to furnish "proof' of our sexual preference...
...It sure would beat going to Canada...
...Ted Clark Edgartown, Massachusetts Progressive Graphics In response to Marjorie Rich's comment on "the paper wasted" on Brad Holland's art in The Progressive (Letters, February issue), I'd like to state that those same "ugly" illustrations were what attracted me to your publication...
...Can't we devote more of our time, money, and energy to looking at how people change...
...The Supreme Court struck down informed-consent laws...
...Would a claim to homosexuality be sufficient to excuse one from serving the country...
...What is it that motivates people who are already so inclined to join us...
...You do not deserve to use the name of Robert M. LaFollette Sr...
...Since so many have, it is not male judges alone who should decide the fate of the abortion industry...
...Shame...
...Hightower is choosing to avoid an intense and expensive campaign against Senator Phil Gramm in 1990...
...What other industry has court approval to avoid basic consumer-protection regulations...
...It reads like the sort of handout Planned Parenthood sells to illiterate public-school teens...
...William H. Slavick Portland, Maine Congratulations to The Progressive for acknowledging that there is an anti-abortion Left even though the editors support abortion...
...Ted McKeever Miami, Florida Correction Two errors crept into the item headed "The Higher Learning" on last month's No Comment page: It is Washington State University (not the University of Washington) that is establishing a distinguished professorship of fast-food service at its Pullman (not Pulliam) campus...
...He certainly would have been a much better Senator than either of the candidates who defeated him...
...Using animals for food is unnecessary, unethical, and inefficient...
...Barry Childers Geneva, Switzerland 'Roe* Must Stand Your editorial, "Roe Must Stand" (March issue), is puerile pap...
...But one thing was missing: None of the three articles offered any discussion of how we would get people to accept these ideas or work toward these goals...
...Finally, how can we bridge the cultural gaps...
...All letters may be edited for clarity and conciseness...
...Moving from awareness to action is not easy...
...For Krauthammer's tumid twaddle to be dignified as "Nietzschean" is oxymo-ronic...
...Eleanor Smeal and The Progressive offer the ingenious argument that "the sheer magnitude of the disagreement" warrants leaving this decision to the individual...
...LETTERS to the Editor Witch Hunt at Parris Island Jim Lynch's "Witch Hunt at Parris Island" (March issue) was enlightening, particularly for those who read the roadside billboards recruiting whites, blacks, Hispanics, women, and men for the military—billboards that might lead one to believe the armed forces are equal-opportunity employers...
...My church is pro-abortion, and I oppose abortion on scientific grounds...
...If you don't know that a human fetus is human, you don't know that you are, either, or that your mother was...
...The Progressive is either intellectually corrupt or totally incompetent morally, scientifically, scholastically...
...Your argument is to license killing if enough people pretend it is something else...
...More important still, can we learn how to bridge the gap between ourselves and those who oppose us...
...However, it is the people of Wisconsin who seem to be responsible for the bad choices they have made...
...How would we do so...
...We were not "meant" to be carnivores: We don't have suitable teeth, enzymes, or intestines for digesting meat...
...They hold much power, and it is folly to think we can reach our goals without them...
...That is why I would not object to a law that permits abortion up to the tenth week, when the nerve system begins to form...
...Rachel MacNair Feminists for Life of America Kansas City, Missouri Despite a heavy-handed media campaign to give moral legitimacy to abortion and all of The Progressive's blab about imposing a "tyranny of the minority," no majority of our representatives in Congress has ever voted to legalize abortion...
...Chris Tiedje Bettendorf, Iowa Nietxsche Lives May I suggest an item from your own pages for your No Comment feature...
...Since 550 divided by 2000 times .44 equals .12, a pound of pork requires twelve hundredths of a pound of soy protein— not eighteen pounds as Coe states...
...intensive confinement and drugging of animals with hormones and antibiotics are the means to high production and high profit...
...I would never cancel my subsciption to The Progressive because it supports abortion...
...If they opt for manipulation by shallow and devious con men, they deserve to be screwed...
...At slaughter, the pigs will yield about one ton of dressed pork...
...I don't blame Garvey for being angry...
...Big money is always prostituted to the global corporate state...
...Roe v. Wade was, the best constitutional authorities agree, a judicial fiat, the Supreme Court creating a right not in the Constitution in its determination to decide what is best for us...
...Why do some pro-abortion people cancel theirs whenever The Progressive prints an ad, letter, or article that states the Left, feminist, pro-life side...
...Holland's imagery in the January issue was completely suitable for the accompanying text—exposed and raw...
...What would ensure us of passing or failing...
...The serious Christian community is, perhaps, the best hope for peace and justice, small though it now is...
...The peace movement must become an international movement...
...However, I'm impressed with Hightower's decision to remain as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and work on a statewide grass-roots political program...
...I wish the best for him and all the folks who depend on ordinary people rather than big money to develop a political message...
...I'm sorry Garvey was defeated in both efforts by big money and some dirty tricks...
...It's hard to imagine that the commanders of our armed forces haven't thought about this possibility...
...Under Roe and its progeny, the abortionist making the fee decides what information the client needs to have...
...In the Comment section of your February issue, Charles Krauthammer's fatuous Cold War rhetoric is referred to as "Nietzschean...
...Helen K. Zunes Chapel Hill, North Carolina Electoral Politics I'm sure it was intentional irony to place Ed Garvey's insightful article ("It's Money That Matters," March issue) just before Dave Denison's report on Jim Hightower's call for a new populism in Texas ("A Party Within a Party...
...Modern "factory-farm" conditions are shocking...
...We do not deal well with back-alley butchers by telling them they may advertise in the yellow pages...
...James B. Prueher New Auburn, Wisconsin I have long admired The Progressive, but I'm startled to find that you believe it good for women to be excluded from making public-policy decisions on abortion...
...The water and land used to feed a meat-eater is more than ten times that required for a vegetarian, and the grain fed to cattle each day could provide a half cup for every human being on the planet...
...As you recognize, even at this late date only five to seven states would continue the unrestricted abortions Roe v. Wade allows...
...There was widespread disagreement, there were no more victims of the racist evil than there have been of the abortion liberty, and few of them would be dead, as all of the abortion victims are...
...We must go beyond the traditional assumption that it is enough to give people information via the written or spoken word...
...Two members of our local anti-nuke, anti-abortion group have received the ACLU person-of-the-year award...
...on your masthead...
...The negative effects of our modern diets are apparent: Meat, eggs, and dairy products are blamed for many cancers, diabetes, heart disease, and other health problems...
...Such pieces as your editorial on Roe v. Wade discredit The Progressive as a source worthy of that community's trust...
...Our human and primate ancestors started eating meat just three million years ago, after sixty million years of vegetarianism...
...If the people don't care enough to choose substance over image, our country does not deserve a Garvey rather than a Robert Kasten or a Jesse Jackson rather than a George Bush...
...Senate...
...The editors welcome correspondence from readers on all topics, but prefer to publish letters that comment directly on material previously published in The Progressive...
...Until a new grass-roots politics like the Rainbow Coalition is developed across the country, we may never again see the kind of politics Ed Garvey remembers with nostalgia...
...Although I have been threatened by the White Citizens Council, the KKK, the American Nazi Party, and the Jewish Defense League, I am still called "reactionary" because I believe there should be a law preventing a healthy woman from aborting a healthy fetus because she has "changed her mind and wants to go to Europe that summer...
Vol. 53 • April 1989 • No. 4
