Though it was a bust, we appreciate Larry Kissell voting against a bill by the House to bar Planned Parenthood from all federal funding. Too bad it passed, but thanks anyway, Congressman Kissell. Right-wingers seem to automatically link Planned Parenthood with abortions. But Planned Parenthood is about much, much more than that. Funding allows them to offer HIV tests, cancer screenings and birth control to those who cannot afford such procedures. Now the bill goes to the Senate. We need to tell our senators how we feel about this bill, how passing it would (pun intended) throw the baby out with the bathwater. Unless you want more unwanted pregnancies among poor women, more HIV related illnesses and more cancer cases that have not been detected and treated in time because people do not have a way to pay for preventive medicine. Thanks for nothing, Congress!
Bill Lindau
Rockingham







I happen to think pretty much every woman out there would agree with me over you, anyway - yeah, because I actually bother to listen to them.
aragorn.....Read my post again.I hardly said anything and if you'll read it you'll see that.You need to know ,though,that what you wrote about"out with the bathwater" is a tasteless slur and you aught to be ashamed.I don't find anything funny in the whole Planned Parenthood Organization but obviously I am too dense to see the "joking" nature of the subject.
1) I don't like that my tax dollars are going to support this. I don't want my tax dollars funding abortions. I'm not opposed to them for some that feel it's necessary - I just want nothing to do with funding them.
2) Well, really, I'm more opposed to some of the comments.
Wezley wrote: "I mean if a woman is raped,you would think that abortion would be ok,I just don't feel that way.I think adoption would be more in line with what to do because regardless of"why" a woman is pregnant."
Seriously? I mean, what sort of insensitive garbage is this. I guess this person does not know anyone that has had to suffer through this. Can you imagine then, the pain and suffering to put someone through, FOR AN ADDITIONAL 9 months? This being a CONSTANT REMINDER that they were raped. Additionally, have you ever had any really bad injury, like, even a Kidney Stone? And you expect a woman to go through childbirth for a child that she not only didn't want but was NEVER MEANT to be?
Come off it. That's utterly ridiculous, and I fear that the rhetoric could have caused a drop in IQ points.
But I am of no significance as a person but I teach truth and stand up for truth including the Scriptures and that is why I and others now use the Hebrew to English Scriptures. There is no infallible translation. If it is translated by man it is fallible and not perfect but the ancient Hebrew is the oldest and most accurate but yet not perfect. It is more accurate than the over 100 English versions out there today.