When will women be able to exercise the rights guaranteed to them in the Constitution? The author of the letter, “Abortion agenda is the real issue” is keen to deny women their rights.
For sure the world would be a better place without abortions. However, the world would be a demonstrably better place if women had the right to choose and they chose not to have an abortion. So why don’t those who oppose abortion spend their countless millions of dollars to support women who are pregnant? After all, the law of the land allows women to choose. The money could go to social programs that guarantee that children will have dental, vision and health care, day care and early childhood education. Instead these revisionists want to punish women.
Do they give any thought to the many women who were disabled or killed having illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade?
Planned Parenthood apologized for the insensitive behavior of their employees in the videos mentioned in the letter. Why don’t the people who misrepresented those employees in those videos apologize? The vast majority of time in the videos was spent by those employees explaining that Planned Parenthood made no money from body parts. I am a designated organ donor on my driver’s license. I have donated blood often. Costs are incurred and have to be covered when medical science is involved. I would prefer that doctors be careful when they remove my kidneys, for example, after I am dead. If in the process they have to crush some other body part that is not needed, so be it.
The author’s accusation that PP encourages abortions is baseless. My statement is supported by the fact that most poor women have no other choice but to go to PP for care, and that the PP is a prominent voice for women with regard to prevention and termination of pregnancy. Let us not forget that reproductive issues are intimately linked with a woman’s general health.
Michael Molly
Edmonds
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