In your editorial of Aug. 9 on ”What`s at stake in Wichita,” you demonstrate you are short on memory and on history. When you opine that abortion services should be stopped ”by elected representatives working through constitutional procedures, not by demonstrators defying the law,” you seem to forget the lessons of our civil rights struggles, notably in Dr. Martin Luther King`s time.
Do I need to remind you it was demonstrators in the `50s and `60s defying the law that prohibited the mixing of races on buses, lunch counters, toilets, etc.? Do I also need to remind you our elected representatives were taking their sweet time and, left to themselves, God knows where we`d be today?
Pray tell us what`s the essential difference between Wichita and Birmingham except the cause involved (which you obviously oppose)?
