To the editor:

Well, Dick Kalfus, we have long been aware that you never get it right – in spite of years of a plethora of corrective advice.

Your letter of June 13, “Morality in the sewer,” continues in that vein. In it you deplore Dr. Tiller as evil for practicing his profession. You might as well also condemn all oncologists/urologists and other surgeons because they also remove malignancies and malformations in gruesome procedure (of which I want none of, God willing).

If an invited abortion was intended to be illegal or immoral, then the Mosaic law would surely have indicated such – it doesn’t. Even an uninvited abortion is listed as a minor misdemeanor – the implication being a far cry from “murder.”

There are many valid reasons for choosing an abortion, and that right should not be abridged. Suppose a woman says, “I know that when born, my child will likely be severely deformed and will not likely live, but I want it anyway.” I can agree with such opinion, but equally with the opposite one (the majority opinion).

Just because a “political appointee” had a vested interest opinion some 400 years ago, it doesn’t make it any more viable today, as two out of three will agree (plus 51 percent of Catholics.)

In the same breath, sanctioning torture as a national policy is hardly taking the high road morally, which we have been known for, and should be, these many years. The fact that various enemies torture is not sufficient grounds for us to follow suit.

But then don’t worry, Dick, as St. Peter will set us all straight before too long. I’ll rest on my laurels, too.

Wayne K. Hood

Cape Coral