While previous letters written by Dr. Hal Sobel were read with interest, his recent essay is so full of nonsense that he must be challenged. (News Times, November 13, 2015). Does he really believe the Republican party is an all male political party?
Has he asked Republican women if they are engaged in “a war on women”?
His first paragraph fails to identify who uses the phrase “War On Women” to describe “Republican policies and proposals.”
Then he proceeds to insinuate Republicans were responsible for the 1998 bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala. and the 2009 murder of a Dr. Tiller in Kansas.
While the question of the odds of pregnancy during rape induced trauma remains unclear, Sobel pontificates “Lies die hard.”
And then he belittles Foster Friess for his humorous comment about a recommended birth control practice of yesteryear:
“In my days Bayer aspirin was used for contraception… the gals put it between their knees.”
Could it be that Dr. Sobel didn’t understand the Friess comment?
Or did he find it unbelievable that a woman could or should have control of her own private parts.
Dr. Sobel drops names (Christopher Morley, Arnold Toynbee) to imply that respected thinkers were on his side.
And he assumes that all Democrats support the right to butcher human flesh that can’t defend itself.
Hopefully, Democratic women will enlighten Hal Sobel about the evils that arise when human life is not adequately protected.
Democrats are at their best when they fight to put money in the pockets of workers.
They are at their worst when they take money from workers to pay for human carnage.
James P. Gough
New Hyde Park
