Bob Kingsbury

To the editor,

Father Michael Griffin of St. Joseph's (Laconia), who counseled many women, told me that abortion is a very unhappy and distressing experience for a woman.

You may remember that Father Michael Griffin placed grave markers in the front lawn of his parsonage to mark the number of abortions. He told me that most women deeply regretted having had an abortion. There is no such thing as a woman "choosing" to have an abortion because it is such a joyful event that she has to have that experience. Women have abortions because the men in whom they put their trust have betrayed them. If you wish to ask him, Father Griffin (lately of Hampton) can provide you with more details of the seriously detrimental life-long effects of an abortion on a woman.

Abortions are caused by the actions of men. According to psychiatrist Dr. Karl Menninger's 1942 book "Love Against Hate," abortions result from actions of men who hate and then betray women. This theme is repeated by psychiatrist Dr. James Gilligan's 2001 book "Preventing Violence." Dr. Gilligan goes on to say that many of the men who hate and betray women are in addition, either homosexual or homophobic.

Dr. Menninger specifically states that only (loving) men can solve the problems caused by men who hate women. Dr. Ludwig von Mises adds more in his 1947 book "Human Action." In addition to men taking action, he says that such action must be based on three things: First, a realization that abortions are a problem; Second, a plan of action that will largely eliminate the need for abortions; and Third, some reason to believe that the plan will be successful.

In my youth, shotguns were the prevailing answer to men who hated women and whose actions left them pregnant. To give a different example of how it worked, sixty years ago when we farmed in Maryland, my Dad visited the county sheriff and asked him what to do if he saw an unwanted man walking around our farm buildings.

The sheriff told my dad, "Shoot him and then call me."

As a result, no one ever walked around someone else's farm buildings without first getting permission. There were those who ignored this rule, but generally they ended up having to have a lot of birdshot picked out of their legs. After that kind of experience, they did not venture on other people's property. And so it was with men who hated women. Even the thought of receiving a load of birdshot kept men who hated women from preying on women, certainly not to the extent they do today.

Occasionally there were errors in that system and some innocent men had to have birdshot picked out of their legs. So about 70 years ago, state house legislators and court room barristers took shotguns out of the hands of fathers, brothers, and male relatives of women in our country, and replaced them with "legal action" — with the results that the news media writes about.

About a century ago, psychiatrist Sigmund Freud wrote, "Precocious exposure to adult sexuality is permanently crippling to the developing psyche." Being sexually crippled makes women very susceptible to various forms of sexual "con" games, that men who hate women play on them.

In 1996, while campaigning for governor, I was given a tour (with other Libertarians) of the abortion clinic outside of Portsmouth. We were told that within the past year, two 13 year-old girls had had abortions and that about 25 percent of the abortions were performed on girls under the age of 16. About half of the abortions were on girls under the age of 18. Newspaper articles report that the men involved in impregnating underage girls are usually in their mid-twenties. While I was there, I asked if the men who had violated the age of consent law had been prosecuted; the answer was, "No, they had not."

Of the 1,000,000 abortions a year, about 3,600 occur in New Hampshire. Of that number, on average about 900 per year are for underage girls. Over the past ten years that is possibly 9,000 abortions resulting from underage sex. Yet of the 9,000 pregnancies, only one man (in Nashua) seems to have been charged with impregnating an underage girl.

Once society begins again to hold men responsible for their actions, million so of abortions a year will no longer be needed. Until then, abortion, as bad as it is, remains slightly better than the double murder which is all too often the alternative.

Double murders (mother and infant( are a continuing and widespread problem. A Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004 new article in the Washington Post tells us that in our nation, over 1,300pregnant women (about 2 per week), have been murdered since 1990.

If so, then not having an abortion, as the "Right to Life" people propose, does not do much for those dead mothers. To make their words come true, the Right to Life people will have to provide something as effective as putting shotguns back in the hands of male relatives. Whether its shotguns, or something else, something must be done about men who hate women.

Per Dr. Menninger, in "Love Against Hate," the actions needed are to be done by men.

Church leaders could return to preaching the Bible and hellfire for erring men, the same as Jesus taught.

Movies, TV and computer shows could limit their presentations of sex and violence to what children can handle.

Per Sigmund Freud, we must eliminate the "precocious exposure of adult sexuality" to children, which would stop the "permanently crippling of the developing psyche" in children, both boys and girls.

The seven major participants in the infamous half-time show at the last super bowl could be sentenced to spend at least a week in the county jail (they are liable for a year). The several major figures in the recent Monday Night Football game half-time show (some of them repeaters from the Super Bowl show) should also be prosecuted and sentenced to spend at least a week in county jail.

Bob Kingsbury

Laconia