Casual or Courageous?

The Rapid City Journal published a couple of good letters on the upcoming vote on the pro-life Initiated Measure 11.

Bishop Chaput is right about Catholics and abortion
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A big hats off to Bishop Chaput the leader of the Denver Diocese. In no uncertain terms he roundly rebuked the Democrats for their pro-choice stance. Chaput who is a native of South Dakota and was bishop of the Rapid City Diocese until 1988, pointed out to Catholic voters in his diocese that no other issue trumps a candidates stand on abortion, plain and simple.

Catholics who vote for pro-choice candidates commit a grave sin! He is doing his utmost to point out to Catholic’s in Denver that they have a moral obligation not to support the Democratic party in the upcoming November election.

Seems to me that only those folks who live in South Dakota or were born here have the guts to tell the truth about the horrible killing of babies in America. Wake up Americans, abortion is an evil that is practiced every day here in our great America.

God bless Bishop Chaput.

JACK SAYLES
Custer

Another letter today from Peggy Reitzel of Hermosa puts things in perspective. Here's an excerpt:

The Bible says in the last days people will be “without natural affection” (II Timothy 3:3). This is evidenced by the way we discuss killing an innocent child as casually as clipping-off a hangnail.

Pregnant out of wedlock? No problem: Just kill the baby. Is being pregnant ruining your plans? No big deal: Just kill the baby. Can’t afford a child right now? Simple: Just kill the baby.

You say it's not abortion on demand? You say it's not being used as retroactive birth control?

Then why are 84.6% of the abortions performed in South Dakota done simply because "the mother did not desire to have the child"?