THE EDITOR, Sir:
I WOULD like to add my 'two cents worth' to the continuing debate about abortion.
Pro-choice says that a woman has the right to choose what she does with her own body I agree, as long as what she is doing is only to her body. To exercise this right, a woman can pierce whereever she wants to on her body; choose to keep her body fit by exercise and diet; choose to practise or refrain from unprotected sex; abuse alcohol and tobacco and there are a host of other things she can choose to do which are too numerous to mention.
However, she is not permitted to snuff out the life of someone who is only partly of her making. and who is, not by its own choice, using her body as the place in which to develop.
What people don't seem to realise is that legalising abortion will resolve nothing. Thirty-two years after it was legalised in the United States, problems continue. Post-birth infanticide continues despite the fact that abortion is legal and readily available.
It is interesting to note that this issue is still a very divisive topic in the United States (and other parts of the world) 32 years after Roe vs. Wade. If it were a right decision, would people still be trying to get it reversed? Was there a fight to have women's suffrage taken away 32 years after it was granted? Think about it!
I submit there has been no benefit to the American society with 32 years of legal abortion by choice, and that a society considering such a move should look at that fact and learn the lesson from example, not copy the
mistake.
I am, etc.,
M. RUTH COSTA
mrc1006@aol.com
Kingston 10
