A recent letter writer ( “Protect the unborn, Nov. 27”) supports the Ohio Legislature’s Heartbeat Bill and he expressed his wish for the outlawing of all abortions.
I understand the simple moral argument against abortion, but I don’t understand how the anti-abortion forces can ignore the economic and social consequences of their position.
The Ohio Department of Health reports that there were 20,893 induced abortions in Ohio in 2017 (1,316 in Lucas County); 89 percent of those receiving abortions had less than a four-year college degree.
If abortions are outlawed, more babies will be born to under-educated single women who don’t want them. Will the letter writer, the Republicans who sponsored the Heartbeat Bill and all those opposed to abortion, adopt those 20,000 babies a year and provide the stable, loving, two-parent, economically sound home environment that every newborn should have?
ROBERT A. KELSO
Sylvania
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GM’s bad choices
Ten years ago, General Motors almost went out of business. Since then, they paid the government back and shed a lot of overhead. Killing off Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer, and pulling the plug on Saab was painful but necessary.
They were spread way too thin with so many lines, and selling essentially the same car under two or three different names made no sense. Phasing out the Volt and Impala are long overdue; the Buick line probably needs to be put out to pasture as well and absorbed into Cadillac.
The GM of today is much better then it was 10 years ago. However they still have an image problem with younger buyers. Holding onto old name plates and redundant designs make GMs vehicles seem dated compared to what Nissan, Hyundai, and Honda are offering.
Change is can be painful but CEO Mary Barra has had to undo decades of poor decisions and mismanagement by her predecessors. It’s clearly time for a bold new direction for GM.
BRIAN SCSAVNICKI
Perrysburg
First Published November 30, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
