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JOURNALEDITORIAL On Tuesday night, business leaders, political hope- fuls, activists, parents and more came together at the fairgrounds to talk about our community. The point of the gathering was to "identify unmet needs and unspoken desires to create powerful goals and then initiate projects," according to the invi- tation to the event and a com- mon rallying cry was our com- munity's youth. Not a lot of progress was made during the meeting -- it's difficult to channel the interests of such a diverse group -- but a lot of great ideas were put out into the ether and informa- tion was shared. Whispers of a YMCA coming to Shelton are getting louder and concerns over the appearance of our downtown were on everyone's mind. The sad truth is that in this time of economic worry and in- creased government budget cuts, youth programs are usually the first to go. Combined with Ma- son County losing entertainment options due to fire and a bad cli- mate for private business, many area youth are left with few affordable organized activities throughout the year. Even with the economy pick- ing up, none of us should expect substantial increases to area ac- tivity budgets in the near future unless the money is coming from private donations. Still, it was encouraging to see a large group of community members, with sometimes dia- metrically opposed interests, sitting in the same circle, shar- ing ideas and coming to common decisions: WORDONTHESTREET LETTERSTOTHEEDITOR Impregnator complicity law Editor, the Journal As usual, the closer to election time, the hotter the debate on women's rights. One is led to believe that the right to decide was given to males alone. It brings to mind part of a verse from an old Sunday school song: "Because the Bible tells me so..." I am not a reader of the Bible on a regular basis and certainly am not a learned scholar. From the Internet I brought up six full pages of small print single spaced pages of research done by Resources For Clergy on Bible references to abortion. The books Numbers and Hosea provide some gruesome reading describing Moses being directed to oversee the revenge on an entire people including dashing small children and ripping open pregnant women. The latter could be a cruel form of abortion, right? Oh yes, and the virgins were to be spared for the pleasure of the soldiers. I'm not making this up, read it for yourselves. After rereading Victoria Pavel's letter to the Shelton-Mason County Journal a few weeks ago I dug up several other articles concerning women's rights from the Seattle Times, The Progres- sive Populist, Progressive Magazine, and finally there was a news article from the Associated Press telling about a prominent Idaho lawyer who is also licensed to practice medicine as an MD. He decided to defend a young mother of three living on less than $250 a month who faces five years in prison for abort- ing with an abor- tion-inducing drug purchased online. It seems her real crime was breaking an ho law that states a professional clini- cian must perform the abortion. Now before re- ferring back to the aforementioned sug- gested new "Impreg- nator Complicity" law I should remark on what one of our most listened-to show hosts spouted out over the airways. His reference to sluts and pro needs this point to be made, in all his- tory of mankind there has never one slut or one pros- titute that wasn't made so by an im- pregnator, (man if you wish). The worldwide "Guttmacher Institute" is an organization that researches sexual and reproductive health. They state that dur- ing the year 2008 (most recent year data is available) there were 3,322 abortions per day, so it is a concern. It may be reason- able to assume many of those were done by the aforementioned strayed women. You can't have a pregnancy without the input from a male somewhere along in the process which, I believe, gives reason to create a law that places guilt on man as well, instead of heaping it solely on the woman. As mentioned before, the public's morals will never be legislat- ed but a law such as this could bring a sharp reduction in abor- tions. If abortion is,indeed a criminal act, then the impregnator must be equally charged as is the woman. The basic purpose for the law would be to enforce the follow- ing: Any man found to be the impregnator in a relationship that results in an abortion procedure must be present at all the clinical procedures now proposed for the woman. He must be equally responsible for all costs for those pro- cedures and depending on certain circumstances to be deter- mined by the authors of such bill may be subject to fines and/or prison time. The Idaho mother of three faces a prison term for not paying a professional clinician to "kill" her unborn child, but those we send to Washington, D.C.. to govern this great nation under God can sacrifice thousands upon thousands of mature fetuses any, where in the world but they will be praised, glorified and reward- ed with full life-time medical, financial support and protection from the possibility of personal harm for the rest of their life. 'Tis a puzzlement. Charles L. Winne Hoodsport B Krista Graham Scott Graham "I feel pretty safe. I don't walk around think- ing, 'Is something going to happen?' My hus- band and I go for walks. As far as feeling dan- ger in town ... not at all." "I feel totally safe. I never have any worries in this town." Sydney Gossin Angella Cook "I feel very safe in town. I come into probably every day." town '!I won't walk around at midnight in the town (but) I wouldn't walk around at midnight any- where. Overall, I love Shelton. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else." Shelton-Mason County USPS 492-800 Shelton-Mason County Journal is a member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Shelton-Mason SUBSCRIPTION RATES: County Journal. RO. Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584. $37 per year for Mason County addresses, Published weekly by Shelton-Mason County Journal, Inc. $51 per year in state of Washington but outside at 227 West Cota Street, Shelton, Washington. Mason County, $61 per year out of state. Mailing address: RO. Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584 ..... Telephone (360) 426-4412 • www.rnasonoounty.com Periodicals postage paid at Shelton, Washington ~)wned and published by ..... helfomMason Courrby 3ournal, Inc - Kari Sleight, publisher Advertising: Dave Pierik. Sr. Acct. Executive Newsroom: Harvey Morris, ad representative Jesse Mullen, editor Sharee Miller, ad representative Natalie Johnson, reporter Front office: Kevin Spradlin, reporter Donna Kinnaird, bookkeeper Emily Hanson sports reporter Margot Brand, circulation Adam Rudnick, copy editor Cricket Carter, mailroom supervisor Composing room: William Adams, graphics Becky Corr, typing Pressroom: Kelly Riordan, production manager Travis Miller, press operator Page A-4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal- Thursday, May 17, 2012