Many times, I drive by West Allis Memorial's expansion and wonder who is paying for all of the booming construction at all of the health care facilities within southeastern Wisconsin. I know the City of West Allis must be sharing some of the hospital expansion costs, if only on infrastructure costs related to the roads in and around the facility. Cohen is an interesting columnist. Usually quite predictable in his support of abortion rights, he occasionally admits to his qualms and raises questions that we need to consider. Well, it depends - on whom you ask, Cohen or Bush, or you or me.
Recent headlines show that the value of a life depends on other things, too.
In India and China, where girls are aborted at a much higher rate then boys, it depends on the gender of the unborn child. Yes, but it involves acknowledging a moral authority higher than our own. The choice is ours as a nation, as individuals. Glendale plans to pay for public improvements in the area with extensive landscaping of the sidewalk area, bus stops, brighter lighting and so on. Each week in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's police blotter section, I read about the car break-ins and retail theft that occur at the various stores around Bayshore.