Mean and viciously dishonest

To the Editor:

On Page 1B of your November 15 issue appears a cartoon that is about as mean and viciously dishonest as any that I have ever seen in a long, long time.

The cartoon depicts a man who wants to ban abortion gradually changing through six cartoon sketches into an ugly member of the Taliban. And, we all know the vicious, heartless policies of the terrorist Taliban.

Bear in mind that for 2,000 years medical doctors took the oath of Hippocrates to "Do no harm." That was prior to the disastrous Roe V. Wade decision that made abortion on demand legal in the U.S.A.

Bear in mind also that an unborn child is a separate person, with a separate circulatory system, often a different blood type than its mother, a separate nervous system, and that this innocent has been scientifically proven to feel pain.

Bear in mind, finally, that the anti-abortion advocate pursues his/her goal by way of the ballot in a democratic process where as the Taliban has often used bombs stripped to children and trained to walk into crowded groups of civilians in Jihad warfare.

So the cartoonist, and by implication the editorial staff or management of the Advertiser, are of the opinion that Taliban Muslims and Christians who believe in the right to life of the unborn are somehow "birds of the same feather."

And by the way, the "right to life" is embedded in the most basic document of our United States — the Declaration of Independence.

Check it out.

Harvey Lord

South Paris

Editor's Note: We are of no such opinion nor is the syndicated cartoonist. The cartoon depicts what happens when people are governed by religion, whatever that religion may be.