I am hoping that one of your readers can help me with information about my father.
His name was Lawrence Herman Lawson, born in 1923, and he was from Springdale. I did find someone by this name who died in 2001 and is buried in Burkshed Cemetery. I know his parents’ names were Herman and Maude.
He was in Buhl, Idaho, in 1946 where he met and married my mother. They were divorced in 1947 shortly after I was born. Although I never knew him or had any contact with him, I find myself with a desperate need to learn anything about him. All of my family was from Northwest Arkansas originally and there are several family members living in the area from my mother’s side of the family.
If anyone in your area knows anything at all, please contact me by e-mail: [email protected].
BEVERLY (LAWSON) WEIGHALL
Buhl, IdahoABORTION HISTORY CONTESTED
In her Nov. 29 letter Rebecca
Newth Harrison falsely promotes the idea that abortions were legal and commonplace in the early American colonies and were constitutionally protected.
Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is such a right given. Although abortion quietly existed in the early colonies, usually by use of certain potions, it was not an acceptable practice and was illegal in most of colonial America and Europe. In addition, courts of the time were harsh on men who attempted to force women into attempting an abortion.
Men and women choose a course for their lives when they engage in activities resulting in the production of a human embryo.
To change the course of their lives through the destruction of an innocent life is a selfish anddisgusting practice contrary to God’s law. Ms. Harrison’s statement that a woman adds value to her life through the right to abort human life is nonsensical. Nothing so intrinsically evil can add to a person’s value. When we consider increased economic or personal freedom to be more important than human life itself we devaluate our own lives. Had Ms. Harrison been correct in her assessment of early American society and constitutional rights it would mean little in the course we have chosen since Roe vs. Wade to destroy over 4,000 innocent human lives every day to avoid the responsibility of choices made. If you do not believe that you are God’s creation you may fall for Ms. Harrison’s approach to life. If you believe in God the creator you must take a stand to protect all of his creation, especially the most innocent.
GERALD LANGE
Bella Vista
Opinion, Pages 5 on 12/26/2009