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also felt that its unbiased nature might be tainted by proximity
to any editorial opinions about those same candidates. I knew at
that point that we didn’t want this sponsorship, but explained
anyway that our endorsements are contained in the editorial
pages of the newspaper, and are clearly denoted as opinions of
the editors.
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to the editors
P.S. All of the arguments
and hostilities you now see in
Canadian could have been put
to rest by a referendum, or in
other words, allowing citizens
of this County to vote on the
boot camp issue. Thank you,
commissioners, for refusing us
that right.
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Nor will we endorse any candidate on the basis of party
affiliation—their or ours—or deny support to any candidate
strictly on the basis of issues with which we are in disagreement.
It is possible to believe that someone can represent his or her
constituency well and be effective in elected office without neces-
sarily sharing a point-by-point agenda with them. Our govern-
ment has to work for far too many different people for one to
believe that it must always work for him.
So here’s to opinions, God bless 'em, and their free and unfet-
tered expression. And here’s to the League of Women Voters, for
recognizing a need for unbiased information about candidates for
political office, and for making it available to us so that we could
make it available to you.
Here’s to the peaceful coexistence of information and opinion,
and to our innate ability to distinguish one from the other. And,
finally, here’s to freedom of the press...even if we eventually go
broke defending it.
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point at which brain formation begins—a fair
index of the subject’s slipper-slope potential.
Much of the report is useful. Embryo research
is already a common byproduct of the burgeoning
study and practice of in vitro fertilization and is
legal in Canada and elsewhere. It’s important to
put ethical guidelines in place if the government
is to fund anything in this area. The panel would
prohibit cloning or the use of embryos past 14
days; it restricts embryo creation to “compelling”
projects and to cases where grant-seekers can
show (1) that the same questions cannot be
answered with existing embryos, or (2) that new
ones are needed for “scientific validity.” It’s the
second of these categories, not the first, to which
Ms King dissents. But we find both alarming. In
approving the funding of the purposeful creation
of human embryos for any experiments the panel
took a step too far.
RECORD
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL CO., TEXAS
THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER 1994
I was also greatly offended
to see how you referred to a
local attorney in last week’s
paper. The headline read “Big
Mack Attacks”. I have no deal-
ings with Mr. Sansing myself,
but he is a professional person
doing a professional job. How
would you like it if someone
made up a cute little nickname
for you referring to your physi-
cal features?
If you cannot or will not con-
fine your personal opinions to
your editorials and run your
paper in an objective profes-
sional manner, maybe it is time
to put away your typewriter
and get a job with Esmor.
Sincerely,
Ann Isaacs
What I didn’t say is that if I hadn’t already written some
endorsements—to be published this week and the next—I would
have sat right down and done so.
But I will promise each one of you this: Our political endorse-
ments will not be based on the suddenly prolific rumors and
vicious personal attacks that have surfaced with such uncanny
timing in the last few days. Our files are bulging with them, our
fax is humming with them and, frankly, our bellies are full of
them.
context entirely divorced from even the potential
of reproduction. One panelist, Georgetown law
professor Patricia King, wrote as much in a par-
tial dissent, saying society has not yet “developed
a conceptual framework to guide us” when
“human life is being created solely for human
use.” To suggest that support for abortion rights
equals support for such experimentation is to
buy abortion opponents’ view that permitting
abortion means erasing society’s ability to make
distinctions.
Though the panel of experts said a developing
embryo merits “serious moral consideration,”
they concluded that the moral status of embryos
younger tfian 14 days (when the first “primitive
streak” heralds the beginning of the nervous
system) is not equal to that of more-developed
embryos or human infants. Some members, it’s
reported, initially wanted to use three weeks, the
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In years past, the
Canadian Record has been
viewed as a fair and usually
accurate newspaper, but in my
opinion, this is no longer true.
The editor of the Record,
Laurie Brown, has taken it
upon herself to offer the readers
of this paper a one-sided view of
the Esmor Boot Camp issue.
You have consistently down-
graded any opposition that has
arisen from the citizens of
Hemphill County. You have
failed to report the inability of
the county commissioners to
answer basic questions con-
cerning what Esmor would be
buying locally, nor could they
give projected figures of cost to
the taxpayers.
The citizens who oppose
have just as much right to
speak as you. You should be
grateful to these people for in-
vestigating and researching
possibilities of liability to the
County (that’s you and me)
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1994, newspaper, October 20, 1994; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1285872/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.