Correspondence
Correspondence They Took Abortion Seriously In"Taking Abortion Seriously" (Sept. 25), David Tell and the editors perceptively emphasize President Clinton's reference to the unborn as "the...
...A friendly staff who knows us is the feature most valued in this grand old building, replete with atmosphere, but innocent of modern improvements...
...I also take issue with the implication that the Republican pro-life platform has "done nothing" to stop abortions, absent "other efforts...
...Barnes's implication that there are "sweeteners" for AARP in the Republican plan that will take AARP out of the picture is ludicrous...
...I take issue with your suggestion that the Republican party should not "allow so much of its energy and attention to be absorbed, as it now is, in the effort to maintain the Republican language on abortion, word for word...
...Noting that an "endangered bird in a national forest" now receives more legal protection than an unborn child, Tell criticizes those who "turn away" from confronting the barbaric reality of the abortion act...
...In like manner, where Caldwell saw a run-down local market, inexplicably preferred over a proposed new "high-quality supermarket," the neighborhood saw an excellent, clean, moderately priced store threatened by a grocery chain which would have offered only certain types of food, and perhaps driven out our friendly local establishment...
...25), Martin Sieff props up his case by belaboring NASA's past and conveniently sweeping under the rug all that has happened since Daniel Goldin became Administrator...
...I can get this sort of critical thinking from listening to a Bob Dornan tirade on C-SPAN...
...There is a great divide on the questions of when life begins, the status of a fetus, and the morality of abortion...
...But Fred Barnes's assertion ("Shy and Retiring," Sept...
...He is also mistaken about our largest single source of revenue-our membership dues-which accounted for 31 percent of total income...
...Forget my subscription...
...they do not have the right to force their moral choices on others...
...Julia B. Foraker Washington, DC In Defense of NASA In "The Final Frontier: Space Yes, NASA No" (Sept...
...25) that the Association has somehow been neutralized in what may be the most important debate facing Americans of all ages in many years is not true...
...Horace B. Deets Executive Director, AARP Washington, DC...
...Alex Nacht New York, NY Uptown Luddites It was hard for me to believe we were living in the same apartment building when I read Christopher Caldwell's Casual ("Living With Naomi Wolf," Sept...
...You think that ethical issues that elude consensus even among the major denominations can best be handled by government...
...For example, pro-lifers supply ob/gyns with "start-to-finish moral education...
...We remain concerned that the proposed $270 billion in savings is far beyond what Medicare can absorb without jeopardizing the program in terms of access and quality...
...The article's premise, that the local elites prefer "lousier services," is amusing...
...Unfortunately, all these far-reaching changes at NASA seem to have evaded Sieff's pen...
...There's a revolution underway at NASA...
...If platform ideas have consequences, then the Republican abortion plank has already saved the lives of unborn children...
...Faith Whittlesey Lake Wales, FL Let me get this straight: your "conservative" magazine favors the federal government telling physicians what medical procedure they should use in dealing with a pregnant woman facing an unintended pregnancy...
...AARP agrees that deficit reduction is important, but not at the risk of eroding Medicare's promise of financial protection...
...Goldin has ended persistent cost overruns, reworked the space station so it's on-time and on-budget, cut overall spending 10 percent, eliminated 22,000 civil service and contractor jobs, and completely upended the planetary science division...
...We believe Congress must address Medicare in two steps...
...On the contrary...
...25), David Tell and the editors perceptively emphasize President Clinton's reference to the unborn as "the children...
...His curious logic urges the Republican party to adopt a "vigorously pro-life" platform while magically diminishing the "energy and attention" devoted to preserving the current platform...
...Bill Hamilton Washington, DC Your editorial on abortion is an abomination...
...This kind of fulminating religious moralizing should have no place in a magazine of political opinion...
...First, assure its solvency for the next decade, and, second, assure the long-term stability of the program...
...Bill Livingstone Washington, DC No Sweeteners for the AARP It is true that the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has met and will continue to meet with the GOP leadership on proposed changes in Medicare and other issues of concern to older Americans...
...The moral propositions embedded in the current platform motivate citizens to engage in constructive pro-life measures...
...Many conservatives support freedom of choice precisely because they feel the government has no business interfering in a woman's private decision and no business dictating personal moral choices...
...Your "conservative" magazine believes that the Republican position favoring tampering with the Constitution to make abortion illegal is sound...
...Goldin's rallying cry is "faster, better, cheaper...
...Absolutely dead wrong...
...People of one view have the right to try to persuade others to change their minds...
...Where he saw a desk staff that was "the meanest, laziest, most illmannered . . . in the city," I and hundreds of other Kennedy-Warren residents saw a kind, thoughtful staff so beloved that we held a packed meeting to protest their removal...
...Sieff complains that Goldin "is no different from his predecessor," and "has yet to start or complete a single mission...
...Past tense used, because the neighborhood protest has apparently succeeded...
Vol. 1 • October 1995 • No. 5
