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Comments on O’Connor

September 25, 1981

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Type: Letter to the editor
Author: various
Source: The Arizona Republic
Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Date is approximate: No

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Editor: Frances R. Haye’s letter about Judge Sandra O’Connor’s stand on abortion states that “abortion on demand is wrong, or it isn’t.” I cannot agree that the issue is so clear-cut or so simple. For instance when it is a case of a young woman taking drugs, paying no attention to good nutrition rules for pregnancy, and absolutely not wanting the baby, the chances are very slim that that baby will be normal at birth or will ever be wanted as an adoptive child. Therefore, it will most likely always have to be cared for by government institutions. Does she want that? MRS. FRANK P. WALKER Sun City

Editor: We Arizona folks are mighty proud of our “native” daughter Sandra O’Connor. She is the epitome of a lady fully capable to don the robes of the Supreme Court with dignity and honor. RUTH DEMOPLOS Phoenix Editor: The fumings of the senatorial lunatic fringe against Mrs. O’Connor’s nomination, and that of the more idiotic gang of so-called witnesses remind me of a paragraph in Robinson & Breasted’s history book which I read at high school ‘way back in 1914. The authors tell of a plumber on a visit to the Parthenon . . He was so busy criticizing the faulty drains that he missed entirely the majesty and loftiness of the architecture. SYLVANUS PETERS Sun City

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