t is pathetic that the National Organization for Women cannot find a smarter representative (“Abortion: new law challenged in court,” Nov. 6). Now that a ban on partial birth abortion has finally been signed into law, Kim Gandy registers her disgust and opposition to the bill by saying, “Today George W. Bush sends a message to every woman and girl in the United States: Your reproductive rights are not guaranteed.”
Doesn’t “reproductive rights” mean the right to reproduce? No one, and particularly this new ban, places any limitations on a woman’s right to reproduce. Unlike China, a woman has the right to have as many children as she chooses. No one and no law forces a woman to refrain from sex or to use birth control. There is no law requiring a woman to undergo sterilization or an abortion. Even if Roe vs. Wade is overturned, it will not eliminate a woman’s right to reproduce. It is time to end the hysteria and read and understand what the partial birth abortion ban addresses.
Unfortunately, to millions of unborn children this law does not afford them much protection because people like Kim Gandy believe they are sub-human and have no right to be born. The ban on partial birth abortion, however, will allow a few thousand unborn children to escape a gruesome death. I have no doubt, however, that abortion advocates will find another method to continue late term abortion, especially when there are zealots like Kim Gandy, who apparently is devoid of any rational thought.
Everett
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