Birth control
Birth control
Cynthia M. Allen supports limiting access to birth control because the Little Sisters of the Poor don’t approve. (See May 20 column, “Little Sisters of the Poor, religious liberty get a big win in the high court.”)
My 14-year-old niece was faced with an unwelcome pregnancy that promised a life of misery and poverty for her and her baby.
Her grandparents rejected adoption, and she was left alone to drop out of school and face years of poverty.
Our family has adopted and raised seven emotionally scarred young children, thrown away by their young mothers.
By opposing birth control, the Little Sisters of the Poor are merchants of misery and poverty. That’s not the kind of compassionate Christianity I learned.
Allen insults our president for his favoring the best way to reduce unwelcome pregnancies.
Allen seems to favor a “more is better” attitude toward population.
The May 20 front page article said Fort Worth’s s population continues to grow rapidly. That’s not good for a world facing dangerous climate change.
Our population (city, state, country and world) has tripled in one lifetime and continues to do so.
The most effective way to slow climate change is via ready access to birth control to slow our exploding population.
You can’t support protecting our environment unless you support accessible birth control.
Steve Hadley,
Benbrook
In regard to Cynthia Allen’s column about the alleged “war” on religious freedoms:
There is no war, except for those trying to avoid the push to have everyone believe in one faith and adhere to a particular religion’s tenets.
That thinking leads to restricting rights of others who don’t share those beliefs.
A war on religion would be the closing of churches and other faith-related places, forbidding religion or promoting only one religion.
I don’t know of any of that happening.
Just because a faith, for example, forbids contraception, those beliefs shouldn’t be foisted on others of different beliefs.
If a person chooses not to use contraceptives, fine. Just don’t deny them to others in the guise of religious freedom.
Charles Clines,
North Richland Hills
This story was originally published May 26, 2016 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Birth control."