PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • November 7, 2022
The term pro-life is an absurd and inappropriate label for anti-abortion groups and misrepresents their position. For all the bellicose vocalization and animated placard waving, the paucity of verbal defense of the world’s wildlife is deafening. The frequency of extinctions is rising dramatically with more and more species under threat. To suggest you are pro-life is a pellucid example of dissemblance. For all the religiosity and moralizing, the pro-human fetus movement ignores the real tragedy of life on planet Earth: that humans, through greed, ignorance, religious pomposity and simple complacency are bringing nearly all life on this planet to a demise. ~ Kenneth P. Burke, M.D., New Portland