Will wrong again
Why you keep publishing the ill-informed but thesaurus-enhanced drivelings of George F. Will is mysterious to me, but his latest (“Movie tells the ignored story of ‘America’s biggest serial killer’”, Dec. 9) is even more obtuse than usual.
In it, he praises Nick Seacy’s anti-abortion film about Kermit Gosnell, a man who performed illegal abortions because Pennsylvania legislators forced Planned Parenthood and other legal providers of contraception and abortion to close.
Gosnell was a monster, but he didn’t exist in a vacuum. He complains that noted right-wing ranter Seacy’s film didn’t get the attention Will thinks it deserved, not noting that low-budget and obscure films almost never get much attention unless they’re exceptional. I know that putative advocates for the free market like Will hate actual competitiveness, but this is silly.
Your pull-quote regarding “when in an infant’s gestation it is preposterous to deny that a baby is present” reminds one of the recent case in Kansas wherein a rapist tried to get out of a sex-with-a-minor charge, citing the victim’s date of conception. Y’know, George, there’s a reason the date on your driver’s license is that of your actual, er, birth.
I’m a pediatrician; I take care of children. I grow very weary of hearing people who repeatedly undermine the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicaid, Head Start and other programs to help children survive compare abortion to infanticide.
No, starving children and sentencing them to die of treatable disease is infanticide.
Michael Treece
Hilo
Board should resign
Despite the Leilani Community Association’s board of directors’ threats of an invasion by hordes of tourists, when the checkpoint came down Thursday, the sky had not fallen and the predicted hordes of tourists have been nonexistent for several days now.
The Leilani board of directors owe their members an apology for frightening us for months when we were most vulnerable and spending our money on a frivolous lawsuit trying to make Leilani Estates a gated subdivision.
Where is the aloha?
If the board members had a shred of integrity, they would resign immediately.
Phil Denney, Cheryl Carroll and members of the Concerned Homeowners of Leilani Estates
Leilani Estates