To the editor:

This is in reply to Donald Wise’s misleading and misinformed letter that was published on Wednesday, Oct. 20.

First let’s go to his first act in which he made the asinine claim that an acorn is an oak tree. Really, Mr. Wise? For an oak tree to be formed from an acorn that acorn has to be planted in the ground and go through some stages before it becomes an oak tree.

Yes, it does contain DNA which like a human being it has to go through stages to be known as either a child or later in life am adult.

Let me go through those stages for an acorn to be tree: once the seed is dropped from the “mother” tree it is known as a seed (not an oak tree) it then unless eaten by an animal becomes an oak seedling (still not an oak tree) this stage lasts approximately three years. To use your phrasing not mine, it is then and only then that the oak seedling “magically” becomes an oak tree. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence knows this.

Now to the second act where he mocks actual facts … . As stated in my previous letter. The entity within the womb (yes, it does contain the DNA of what it will later become) goes through four stages — a zygote (is this viable outside the womb? Answer: nope), then an embryo (is this viable outside the womb? Again, the answer is nope), then it becomes a fetus (Is this viable outside the womb? I’ll get back to that in a minute). Then at birth which is the fourth stage, and no, Mr. Wise, this is not a “magical” stage as you seem to think, which by the way the words magic or magical never appeared in my previous letter).

Now let’s get back to the fetal stage. Doctors have stated that before week 22 of a woman’s pregnancy, the entity that is within a woman’s womb, while having the DNA of a human is not viable outside the womb making it part of the woman’s body and as such is her body. Nice try at deflecting from real facts, Mr. Wise, but not good enough.

A woman’s body is for her to do with whatever she wants to do. No other person has the right to tell her what to do with it. No other woman, no other man and most definitely no politician who is so far from knowing the circumstances behind the need of an abortion and most certainly no person who follows a mythical book that was written over 2,000 years ago has the right to tell a woman what to do with her body.

In fact the only two people that need to be discussing the woman’s reproductive health are the woman and her doctor. Anyone else that puts their nose in to their business is just a wannabe dictator who grew up in the wrong historic period and the wrong country,

So no, Mr. Wise, it is not magical as you claimed I said but a cleverly crafted set of stages that mother nature gave us and not a magician as you claimed.

George Fisher

Lewistown