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Invasive exams should apply to men as well; Oren Spiegler; Beaver County Times; April 8, 2012.
Mr. Spiegler is such a prolific letter writer the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review gave him a little tribute back in 2003. Google “Oren M. Spiegler” and you’ll get more hits than you know what to do with. Unfortunately, prolific is not a synonym for competent. Mr. Spiegler claims to be a Republican. In my critique of “Breathing more freely,” I cited reasons why I was “beginning to believe Mr. Spiegler is simply another Republican impersonator,” but he sealed the deal with “Greatest foreign policy debacle.” Subsequent letters have been more confirmation, including this one. The group of local Republican impersonators also includes Messrs. William A. Alexander, Arthur Brown, Edward J. Hum, Bill Ralston, and George Reese, all claiming to be disgruntled Republicans.
You can find links to previous critiques of Spiegler letters I critiqued here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. The most recent critique was of “Gun violence should be focus of church.”
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“I am pleased that legislation designed to force women seeking abortions to undergo invasive ultrasound procedures seems to be dead for the moment, but if it should ever be resurrected, I believe it should be accompanied by a requirement that men with health risk factors such as obesity be required to submit to colonoscopies and proctological examinations on a schedule handed down by the government.”
[RWC] This is off-topic, but how much do you want to bet Obamacare would eventually make various “invasive … procedures” mandatory in the name of cost-cutting if we let it survive?
“Gov. Tom Corbett’s reaction when questioned about the forced ultrasound procedure for women was to say that the woman can close her eyes, declining to observe the result. The same standard could be applied to invasive examinations thrust upon men.”
[RWC] Though I agree with the stated goal (making sure a woman seeking an abortion sees the unborn child is not just some pre-cancerous colon polyp), I have to admit I’m not in favor of government forcing a medical procedure on someone even in this circumstance.
“If we are a society that forces government into the most intimate facets of our lives in the name of being ‘pro-life,’ then let us apply it to all, not simply the woman seeking to legally terminate her pregnancy.”
[RWC] In comparing a prenatal ultrasound to a colonoscopy, Mr. Spiegler compared an unborn child to a pre-cancerous colon polyp or colon cancer itself.
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