5,899 Statewide Victims in 2015

Thirty victims of food poisoning, and the outbreak makes the Alabama Health Department News. Three cases of measles or tuberculosis and the ADPH posts warnings to all citizens. So what's the disease that affected 5,899 citizens year before last and no one said anything? These were women who received an induced abortion in either a clinic or hospital in our state.

Did you read about the Roy Moore rally in Scottsboro earlier today? There were two who held up signs to denounce Moore. While these two females stood silently, a man (whom we're told is a first cousin to the DeKalb County Moore campaign manager who pushed the FOX videographer) shouted at them, calling them "baby killers." He went on to tell a reporter that anyone who votes for a Democrat is a baby killer.

Okay, sure, we can really see Jesus doing the same...

No, we can't.

How many know that in 2004 and 2008 Roy Moore said he might vote for the Democratic presidential candidate? We'll assume the Democrats weren't "baby killers" then when it didn't suit Moore to call them that

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We all know hundreds of thousands of our precious tax dollars are wasted each year defending anti-abortion laws that will never stand up in court. Some say it's all a plot to keep a bugaboo at hand to rail against to insure re-election. For our part, we think it's a combination of this and just plain dumbth.

We don't know about Southern Son or Cherry, but the rest of us who write here don't have children in school. We believe one writer has grandchildren in a Colbert County system. Yet we all pay taxes. We have a right to ask how effective our sex education courses are.

How many of our readers have visited local schools to inquire about these courses? How many have demanded much more extensive sex education? We're anticipating a zero show of hands here.

The latest statistics show that 86% of those seeking an abortion weren't married. You can safely infer that almost 100% of these women didn't intend to become pregnant. So why did they? 

Just imagine that abortions in this state could be cut by 86%. That would reduce the current rate to 826 a year. That's still too many, but wouldn't it be a wonderful start?

If you're a teacher in a local system, contact us. Tell us how we can help expand sex education, specifically pregnancy prevention. Better education will immediately lower the abortion rate by scores, and the rate will then continue to decrease each year.

Isn't that better than yelling and cursing at innocent women whose only sin is to support Roy Moore's opponent?