{"id":10240,"date":"2008-10-10T19:09:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T02:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/you-cannot-step-back-from-abortion\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T00:15:34","slug":"you-cannot-step-back-from-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/you-cannot-step-back-from-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"You cannot step back from abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a rebuttal of Janice Ward\u2019s letter to the editor on Oct. 3 (online date; print date was Oct. 4), \u201cLetter doesn\u2019t speak for all who have had abortions\u201d)<\/p>\n

She demonstrated that the abortion topic strikes a raw nerve.<\/p>\n

The \u201cchoice\u201d\/abortion, is a choice you cannot undue. Once it is done – it\u2019s done. It\u2019s not like getting a short haircut. Your hair will regrow.<\/p>\n

Once the line is crossed it\u2019s crossed. When a woman\/young girl has been pressured into the \u201cchoice\u201d\/abortion, it becomes hard to be able to look at abortion objectively.<\/p>\n

Is there such a thing as a small pregnancy?<\/p>\n

Janice Ward agrees there are some women who have regrets.<\/p>\n

To reaffirm the value of the unborn does not diminish the pain of personal involvement in abortion. It\u2019s just acknowledging the humanity of the unborn. Please log on to silent<\/p>\n

nomoreawareness.org<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mary Locke<\/p>\n

Federal Way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a rebuttal of Janice Ward\u2019s letter to the editor on Oct. 3 (online date; print date was Oct. 4), \u201cLetter doesn\u2019t speak for all who have had abortions\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10240"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}