Re: “” April 26 letter to the editor.
There is no male on this planet who has the right to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body — period.
I would like letter-writer Tom Uebbing to tell me the last time he was pregnant, or how many 12-year-old old girls he has known who have become pregnant, or how many of those infants or children who are not wanted for whatever reason he has adopted into his family.
As a retired nurse of 54 years, I have been on the front lines of all of the above situations. There are no easy answers, but not having safe pregnancy termination available in our country is not an option.
J. Truesdell, Arvada
The side of legal abortion that I never hear anti-abortion advocates acknowledge is the reality of back-alley, coat-hanger abortions. That is what we had before abortion was legal. Doing away with our current abortion laws would not stop abortions. It would just turn back the clock to those dark days. Is that really what we want? Abortions performed by quacks, in dirty, sub-standard conditions? Abortions that leave women maimed or dead? Where is the justice, or reverence for life, in that position?
Nancy Litwack-Strong, Lakewood
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