Dear Editor: A letterwriter on your website lacks some proper perspective. The Democratic Party in the two states he names are continuously expanding their support for abortion, not “ending” it, and they effectively use the courts to get their way no matter how much opposition.

And, however much Catholic publications might hide from the fact, the majority of those describing themselves as Catholic, support abortion, even greater than the general population.

The protection of a border, one of the very few legitimate purposes of government, is not intended to “stop poor people from escaping their misery.” It is intended to reduce the damage done to poor people from dying in the desert making the crossing, to end the damage done in poor communities in the United States with drug gangs having easy access, to stop the inherent evil of human trafficking, and to end the crisis of desperate, and oftentimes evil, parents sending their small children across the border to fend for themselves. Concern for the poor would suggest a need to oppose the socialist governments that continuously create greater levels of poverty.

Concern for such a lack of perspective over the greatest evil in human history, abortion, does not constitute “screaming.”

CHARLES CASTELLO

From Tablet Website