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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."
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