Liz Romer, director of the Children’s Hospital Family Planning Clinic, discusses an IUD with a patient. (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post file)
Re: “Colorado must retain funding for birth control,” Feb. 15 Lisa Wirthman column.
Lisa Wirthman writes that “the best-case scenario for last-minute abortion restrictions is to create more unintended births — a serious health risk for both mothers and babies. In unintended pregnancies, mothers are more likely to have complications and lack prenatal care, while babies are more likely to be premature and have lower birth weights.”
Wirthman seems to believe that it is more risky for a woman to give birth than to undergo an abortion. Medical statistics do not support this assertion. The only people who claim to sincerely hold this view are those in the abortion business.
Furthermore, the only way one can assert that an unintended birth is a more “serious health risk” than an abortion is if you don’t believe that the one aborted is a baby. And the only way you can cling to that belief is if you have never seen an ultrasound image of an unborn child.
Henry Blum,Centennial
This letter was published in the Feb. 22 edition.
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