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Advertisement was deeply offensive

I found the two-page advertisement by “Lifewatch” in the Durango Herald (Jan. 22) deeply offensive.

Why? Because it’s not life this group is supporting, it’s birth. If groups like this truly supported life, the Children’s Health Insurance Program would have been renewed months ago.

Appropriate sex education, including both contraception and how to effectively say “No” would be taught in public schools.

Some 21 percent of U.S. children would not live in poverty.

At the risk of receiving nasty replies, I’ll point out that Planned Parenthood does more to prevent abortion than this or any other group, providing education, counseling, contraception, and yes, in 2 percent of their cases, abortion.

As soon as groups like “Lifewatch” begin caring for children instead of zygotes, I’ll be willing to hear what they have to say.

Dinsmore Fulton

Durango