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Two articles on the Opinion Page (CR, Aug. 7) should have been vetted before publication. “The Beautiful American” passed judgment on the Hudson Institute with the words “red flag” and “corporate funded conservative think tank.” If you are going to call a source a liar, do not base your article on acceptance of that source’s analysis and conclusion. If you do not think the source was a liar, do not imply lying.

As the election cycle approaches, the pro-abortion Catholics will trot out their own “Apologia Pro Vita Sua” to explain their voting for a pro-abortion candidate. “It’s only one issue,” “I’m not a single-issue voter,” “What about the unjust war in Iraq?” etc. A recent letter compared the taking of pre-born life to the death of soldiers in Iraq to justify his voting for a pro-abortion candidate. True, each life is precious. On the one hand, we have a volunteer soldier encircled in body armor, armed to the teeth and often in the cocoon of a Humvee. On the other hand we have a child encircled by his mother’s womb innocently waiting for time and nourishment to make an entrance into the world, and in a few violent moments that same child’s body parts are being laid out on a table to make sure nothing remains in the child’s mother.

During the 1980s, computers weren’t for the cool kids.

Abortion is a lightning rod. Each side has its view of what is right. We have heard these arguments before: the rights of the unborn vs. the rights of the woman. To Catholics, the choice should not be hard. The church has always supported the value of life. There is no other choice.

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will continue to monitor and have a dialogue with members of the Legionaries of Christ in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, as they respond to a series of requirements he made of them in June.