The abortion debate
Sir, — I would like to ask the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, through your column, to leave me out of their propaganda campaign. I get most irate when faced with biased literature from my mailbox and I get most irate when faced with bad grammar from any source. A combination of the two sends me scurrying for my pen. I am angry. Children may read this rubbish in mailboxes. Their idea of democracy and the right to choose will be warped. Do not give me the argument about abstention versus consequences. or “foetal rights.” Foetuses are bits of tissue in
my opinion, whereas women are indisputably living and trying to cope with a vast problem. They need our sympathy at this time, so quit putting obstacles in their paths (or in my letter box). — Yours, etc., GILL AVERY. August 24, 1977.
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