Blumenthal’s No Hypocrite over Abortion
The root of the argument in the letter “Save Animals, Accept Abortion?” [Aug. 31] is that Sen. Richard Blumenthal is a hypocrite with skewed priorities because he supports Planned Parenthood while also advocating to make torturing animals to death a federal crime. The letter writer’s argument relies on the assumptions that 1) abortion tortures the fetus and 2) Planned Parenthood increases the number of abortions. Abortion, when done early enough, is not torture as it does not inflict pain on the fetus. Blumenthal could only be considered a hypocrite if he was denouncing torture of animals while advocating for torture of fetuses. But he is actually doing the…
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