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Yes, Bush will poison our children. He'll also kill your parents in a nursing home, and burn down your house if you disagree with him. Dick Cheney gives cigarettes to kindergartners. George Bush want to take away prescriptions from your parents.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Sheesh!
Insinuating that President Bush "will" poison your children is pretty far out there, isn't it, Mr. Editor? Is the the best headline you could have chosen for this letter?

Think what you will about the headline. Dr. Lauenstein makes an excellent point. Using averages manipulates the facts and disguises a real threat.
What will it take for some people to open their eyes and Bush's self-serving policies for what they are?
Under the present administration the sky IS falling... Run, Chicken Little, run.

Excellent work, my young apprentice. Our ingenious plan for poisoning children is proceeding fabulously. Soon we will have soaked thousands--MILLIONS--of infant brains in a deadly brew of mercury and malice.

But WHAT'S THIS? Kurt Lauenstein of Greensboro, NC is unwilling to poison children for cheap electricity? We must crush this noble idealist! Seize him! Find out what books he checks out from the local libary! He will ruin everything--our kickbacks from the mercury lobby, our design of eliminating all human life from the planet, our nefarious plans of spreading democracy to totalitarian regimes--ALL OF IT IS IN DIRE PERIL! Stop him, before it is too late!

And don't forget the Bush-Cheney plan to issue can openers to all citizens over 60 years old. They must have a way to open the cans of cat food that they must eat for supper.

It is plain amazing how the Bush adminstration can fight a war at the same time they are killing off all of us Americans.

So the Democrats who supported the murder of 40 million plus unborn children suddenly cares about damage to a child's brain.

Interesting. Very interesting.

Another Bigmouth,

I humbly submit that you may wish to remove your posterior from your speaking area, so that we may understand exactly what point you are making.

Another bigmouth another little brain.

yada yada yada, same ol, same ol, same ol. Republicans want to kill the children, starve grandma, steal from the poor and middle class and give to the rich, poison the environment, and make life miserable for everyone except billionaires. Worn out Democratic playbook mantra used every election and now even in between elections. The only new scare tactic I've seen now is that Republicans want to create a theocracy.

Jim, if you can't understand how a person (not referring to the Dr. Lauenstien, don't know his opinion) can support sucking a viable human life into a sink and then worry about the "children", then I can see why you are baffled by Bigmouth's post.

I'm an expert in assisting people who accuse others of talking out of their posteriors, so please, let me know if I can help.
Jim, what part of what another bigmouth said, did you did not understand? I found his comment to be EXTREMELY clear.

I must be speaking into my own butt, because it is obvious that certain people here can't understand plain English.

Some of us can understand you bigmouth, keep talking.

I found bigmouth's post very easy to understand.
And very truthful.

Ahh-all of you who misrepresent abortion drive me nuts. Most abortions do not occur past 12 weeks and the majority occur between 7-9, when the fetus looks nothing like a baby, and is tissue with no synapses or brain waves. Partial Birth abortion was for late term pregnancies. Very few doctors will do abortions after 12, and only around 20 if the mothers health is in danger. Abortion is a difficult decision that no one makes easily. If the republican party truly care about lowering abortions they would support sex ed and birth control. The abortion rate dropped under clinton.

It has always been a mystery to me how so many people can get so sanctimonious about a choice that is not their's to begin with but do little to help the unwanted children here on earth.

Since you started this, Another Bigmouth, I would like to ask you how many poor, unloved, unwanted children you have helped in the last month? How much time have you contributed in programs like Big Brother/Big Sister? How many charities to help these children do you give to?

It is easy to sit in judgement of women you do not know and condemn them for the tough choices they feel they must make. It's a lot harder when it's your decisions and actions that are in question. When you have to defend yourself.

Dan, Cells multiplying do not become "human" for at least three months. The "baby" does not become viable outside the mother's womb until usually after the seventh month. There are rare cases when a 6 1/2 month fetus is saved. However, those children are often plagued with multiple health problems that last a lifetime.

As K has pointed out few doctors will perform abortions after the stage of viability outside the uterus. So the kind of horror all the anti-abortion folks want you to think is going on really isn't.

I know as a Catholic you can't condone any form of abortion. But I think you need to respect the right of others to choose what they think is right for them. If you want the same freedom to choose for yourself and your family what you think is right, you should be willing to grant others that same courtesy.

After all, no one has demanded your wife should take birth control pills because they think the world is overpopulated and she shouldn't be adding to it. No one has demanded you have a vasectomy so you may not procreate. Why, then, would you think it OK to demand a woman give birth when that is not her choice?

I do not understand the logic in such a private decision being the topic of such public debate. Why is it really anyone else's business?

As I have stated before I am pro-choice. I am not pro-abortion. So I have absolutely no problem saying I am also concerned about those innocent children who are exposed to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals. There is no inconsistence for me.

Funny how the party of 'small' government likes to get all in our lives and tell us how to to run our lives.

Sounds like Tom DeLay all over again.

Yvonne, I support 3 boys. They are my own. All I ask is that parents support their own children. Support, not abort. I understand that isn't always easy. In fact, I KNOW it isn't always easy.

But I'm not even getting into an abortion debate with you or anyone else. It isn't even debateable because the chance of me changing anyone's mind is pretty remote. I just think it is quite ironic that the party who won't even give a kid a CHANCE at life, that supports crushing brains in late term abortions, could criticize Bush for a child's brain damage. I think most people got that.

I am impressed that the poisoning of our children (including fetuses) with toxic waste was so quickly turned to the issue of abortion. I think maybe the toxins are already working on us, keeping us from thinking clearly. (By the way, I spell my name Lauenstein)

Dr. Lauenstein, Oft times people who cannot refute the position of a letter writer will introduce a topic that will be a kissing cousin to the issue. In this instance it was "poisoning children with toxins-killing children via abortion". A stretch but nonetheless remotely linked.

While I personally think abortion should not have entered into the discussion, it did. And once introduced I felt the need to respond to those folks who expressed the need to judge people they don't know.

To state someone thinks a certain way based only on party affiliation is oversimplifying (to be PC and southern). Several of the posters criticized Democrats for being pro-choice and went on to suggest there was an incongruence between being pro-choice and pro-child. This notion is a bunch of manure. I think it more prudent to focus on the children in the here and now.

I have said for years that we are poisoning our children with enviornmental pollutents. All one need to do is go to any pediatrician's office on any given day to see all the sick children. Yet adults ignore the harmful effects of second hand smoke, lead, exhaust fumes and corporate pollution on our children. It makes them feel less guilty to deny or ignore such things.

Thank you for trying to bring light into the darkness.

"I think it more prudent to focus on the children in the here and now."

That's best for your argument. If you focused on the dead children in trash bins across America, it wouldn't be a very nice thought, would it?

Kurt, it's nice that you are so easily impressed. But the reason why these 2 things were linked is pretty simple. You turned mercury poisoning into an opportunity to smash Bush's entire agenda and administration, pretty much leaving any concern for children that you might actually have masqueraded behind a political attack. It's pretty obvious which side of the aisle you sit on.

You then go on to say that you aren't willing to poison children for cheap energy. Yet you are willing to murder children to let irresponsible parents off the hook. It isn't that big of a leap from one issue to another.

What did you expect people to debate. Did you think people were going to say "Oh, I'm all for poisoning children with mercury. I hope they build a power plant up-wind from me?"

No, you used this issue as a political attack and the Democratic Party doesn't have a leg to stand on when it comes to protecting children.

And no, I don't worship Karl Rove, I didn't vote for George Bush, and I'm not a Christian!

Huh, I don't have an arguement, I have a position. And to be a little less PC than before that position is that it is really none of your business what a woman choses to do with her own body. Or the decisions she makes regarding her own body.

No matter how I feel about abortion, I certainly don't feel I have the right to force anyone else to adhere to my decisions. And I definitely do not want anyone trying to force me into doing things their way! Even if that means things are not always pretty and we don't live in a June Clever world.

Yvonne, I've heard your position on abortion before, pro choice but not pro abortion. Exact same as Kerry on abortion and the 87 billion. It's an easy way out. I've never understood how someone can be for something and against it.

Then you get into the same old argument that it's not the government's or anyone elses business about what someone can do to their body. Excuse me, but government regulates that you cannot put cocaine into your body, cannot put more than your prescribed amount of oxycontin in your body, cannot put more that .08 alcohol in your body and drive, cannot kill your body by suicide. But it's ok to kill a life inside your body. Go figure.

Then the other business about how it's not a life in the first months. Those "cells" are life no matter how you slice & dice it because if left alone, they will grow into a baby barring a natural miscarriage. They are not fingernail or hair cells that we cut off our bodies regularly. I shudder of the thought, when I look into my children's eyes, that my wife and I could have had them sucked out of her body to never exist.

I don't expect to change your opinion. I just get sick of the people who say they are pro choice and anti abortion, it doesn't equate so don't cloak it.

By the way, I have helped existing children. I was in Big Brothers/Big Sisters for 10 years and give to children's charities.

"All one need to do is go to any pediatrician's office on any given day to see all the sick children". Perhaps you and Dr. L and put together some statistics. My children and the children in our neighborhood and day care are not keeling over from mercury poisoning. If others are, provide the facts.

As for you Dr. L since I can't spell your name and really don't care, I think huh? sums up your position very well. I've read your letters before and they are all the same, attack Bush. You need to loosen your bowtie.

Kurt baby,

Sure it ain't Fronkensteen?

Dan, I never implied you or your wife should choose abortion. What I clearly said was that it is an individual's decision and all should respect that if we want the same for ourselves.

All the drugs you used as illustration with the exception of alcohol are illegal drugs which is why it is illegal to use (or take into the body). Unfortunately for some, sperm is not illegal.

The reason you and other folks who think like you can't separate pro-choice and anti-abortion is because you see only half the equation. Before there is a baby to abort, there is a woman, a human being. Regardless of what kind of woman she is, she and only she, has the right to make decisions regarding what happens with her body. Another person or the government has no right to reduced her to a baby factory.

I don't have to approve of everything someone does to defend their right to do it. I dispise smoking but I defend adults right to smoke. I am not a gambler but I defend an adult's right to choose for themselves. I had a tubal ligation after three children (when I was of child-bearing age) but I defend any other woman's right to choose to have as many kids as she can afford. The key word is choice. I do not believe in abortion for myself but support a woman's right to choose. If you can't accept that I can't help it. (I still enjoy your posts and respect your right to disagree.)

I am not cloaking abortion. And I am not trying to change your mind about it. I respect your beliefs and your right to your opinion. All I am asking of you and like minded folks is to abstain from condemning women for making decisions only they have a right to make.