To the editor:

This is in response to the gentleman who said we needed to kill senior citizens (Public Forum, Sept. 15). I have heard the argument that John McCain is the candidate to vote for because he is pro-life. While, I too, believe that life begins at conception we can’t choose a president based on this issue.

First, the president has nothing to do with Roe vs. Wade. He can’t do anything to change this Supreme Court decision. As I recall, President Bush ran on this platform and in his eight years as president it has never been an issue he has discussed.

Second, killing the senior citizens is just as bad as the pro-lifers who attack the abortion clinics. It’s hypocrisy. God loves all his children, not just the unborn. That being said, the rest of God’s children are getting the short straw – seniors, the homeless, children needing parents. (I was adopted and am trying to adopt and have been going through this process for a year.) Unemployment is up, people are losing their homes, environmental cancers are on the rise. Senior citizens who have worked all their life get little back for their efforts. Veterans come home and receive shabby health care and are committing suicide.

We need to consider all of God’s children. I am undecided but no matter who I vote for, I hope that these are the issues brought forth in the campaign. Abortion is between God and the individual; it is not an issue for the executive branch of government.

Michele Dillon,
Lawrence