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p> TOO MUCH INFORMATION? br> Re: Pia de Solenni's Hooked for Life : /p>

Please accept my gratitude for this wonderful article. Yes, the original was TMI. But hopefully it got a few people thinking.

I am a USMC Vietnam vet and now serve as a chaplain trainee in the VA. I can recall the debate pre-Roe v. Wade. I can recall my mother, a woman with a Harvard Master's in Education, being soundly vilified by the left as an "alarmist" for suggesting that if Roe V. Wade were allowed to pass, we would be facing "abortions by the thousands every year." Sad to report -- as a prognosticator mom was a failure; by several orders of magnitude. We are now upwards of a million a year. That is more than disgusting; it is evil. And extremely short-sighted. Looking at it with a pragmatic lens, and completely ignoring any philosophical, spiritual, or political views; had we not killed 45,000,000 in the last 35 years, we wouldn't be needing the 12, 18, or 24 million illegal alien immigrants.

As a chaplain I hear tragic stories on a regular basis of people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and even 60s and 70s, who have had their marriages (or shack-ups) wrecked by an abortion. In many instances that is one of their first self-disclosures. In other cases it comes out only after many sessions of pastoral counseling.

p>Chaplains have been called "Cardiac specialists of a sort; we listen for 'heart murmurs.'" There is more than just a murmur out there. There is a full-throated, broken-hearted, blood-curdling scream. br> -- Kevin Coughlin br> aka ''cap MarineTet68' on Lucianne.com /p> p> Interesting article. But, my question is as follows: Who, with a third grade education and beyond, reads the

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