To the editor:

I’m glad the Journal-World carries Leonard Pitts’ column. This Sunday, he and I agree that people are too likely to choose “the soft comfort of lies” over the hard, ugly truth. Pitts says the truth “indicts, it convicts, it rends and shreds excuses, denials and the simple ability to live at peace with the past.” The experiences of the holocaust and the “tortured history of race” share a horrible “rawness” which people tend to pass over, “spouting banal platitudes.”

Hear me now, if you are able. The holocaust has not ended and the dehumanization of some of your fellow citizens has not stopped. Saline abortions, vacuum extraction abortions and abortions in which viable infants are pulled just out of the birth canal occur more than 1,000 times per day in this country.

When my children ask me how my generation could have been so blind, so unwilling to face the grisly truth, so insistent that nothing bad was happening and so mired in the web of lies and self-interest that it could not extricate itself from the horror, I want to be able to say I tried to expose it. So here’s your chance to face the reality of your victims and stop the killing before your children realize what you’ve done.

Charlotte Ostermann,
McLouth