Dimwit Brigade Has It All Backwards

(Email sent to Michael Gonidakis, State Medical Board (and Ohio Right To Life), Ohio State Representatives David Hall, Sarah LaTourette, Bill Patmon, and Margaret Conditt, Ohio State Senator Peggy Lehner and Senate President Keith Faber.)
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To Michael Gonidakis, David Hall, Sarah LaTourette, Bill Patmon, Margaret Conditt, Peggy Lehner and Keith Faber:

What's the latest from our fine public servants?  You want to ban all abortions after 20 weeks, ban
abortions of Downs Syndrome fetuses, and end all state funding to Planned Parenthood.  Why?  Because your stated goal is to "end abortion."  Just end it.  To do that, you believe Ohio should pass an obviously unconstitutional law just to gum up our legal system with endless repeals and lawsuits.

You have two problems:

1.  Your goal will never happen.  Abortion will never just "end" or vanish.  Even if you could somehow succeed in making it illegal, there will always be some women who find themselves with an unwanted pregnancy, and some of those women will seek and obtain an abortion, no matter what.  Abortion has been documented throughout recorded history, in every nation and society.  You can't wish it away or legislate it out of existence.

2.  Your goal sucks!  Forcing women to have unwanted babies is unnecessarily cruel and punitive.  Those who work toward that end are just a dimwitted collection of moralizing fanatics playing God.  As a result, what you have come up with is all wrong and all backwards.  (Not to mention unconstitutional.)

Suppose you had a better and more intelligent goal, one that focuses not on the medical procedure of abortion but on the actual cause of abortions.  Suppose your revised goal was to reduce unwanted pregnancies and thereby reduce abortions.  Now you've got something workable, something desirable, something that virtually everyone would support.  (And notice the key word is "reduce," not end or eliminate.  An absolutist stance is rarely a wise one.)

Then to achieve your new and improved goal of reducing unwanted pregnancies, you would work to support sex education, to support free contraception, to support the efforts of Planned Parenthood and other women's health organizations, and you would make sure that abortions remain safe, affordable, and easily accessible to those who choose it.  (Their choice, not yours.)

In short, you would support and defend everything you currently oppose.  And you would be a better, smarter, more reasonable and more compassionate person for it.

As elected officials, we expect better from you.  Your positions on this issue do not reflect the majority opinions of your constituents, of Ohioans, or of the American public.  The latest Gallup poll found just 19% of Americans believe abortions should be illegal in all cases.  You're way off base and on the wrong side of history.

Mr. Gonidakis, you are unelected.  You're merely appointed/self-appointed, and you'd do well to remember that.  You have no mandate.
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(If you'd care to join me in communicating with the Dimwit Brigade, their contact info follows.)

www.ohiohouse.gov/david-hall/contact
www.ohiohouse.gov/sarah-latourette/contact
www.ohiohouse.gov/bill-patmon/contact
www.ohiohouse.gov/margaret-conditt/contact
ohiosenate.gov/lehner/contact
ohiosenate.gov/faber/contact
mgonidakis@ohiolife.org

"Gonidakis" -- What a nice name for an anti-abortion extremist!  "Gonna-dick-us."