TO THE EDITOR:
Roderick Flannery says Israel is not being threatened by the rest of the Middle East and implies it is not the only Middle Eastern democracy, but then offers no support for this assertion. I hope this is because it was edited out of the letter.
Every poll I have seen puts the percentage of Arabs that want Israel destroyed in the range of 80 percent. Most of the Middle Eastern countries are still in a state of war with Israel and have yet to normalize relations.
Before the Arab spring, Israel was certainly the only democracy in the Middle East, and as democracy in Egypt is currently questionable, it may still be.
As for abortion, as someone who has studied chemistry and biochemistry, I have certainly looked at embryology textbooks, but nothing in science unequivocally says a fetus is a human being and not an organ/outgrowth of its mother.
The anti-abortion crusaders have recently tried to wrap themselves in science, but this really doesn’t work. Abortion is a moral issue and, as such, outside the bounds of what science can tell us much about directly.
Daniel W. Cole ’15
J.D. Candidate
