Letter: Safe, legal abortion must be protected

Posted Monday, March 25, 2019 10:21 am

To the Editor:

Thank you to Amelia Silver for her beautifully written letter of support for H.57. I have been involved in the fight for safe, legal abortion pretty much my entire life. It astounds me that we still have to fight.

My argument has always been the following. Woman/girl X is pregnant and getting an abortion. She either has access to a safe and legal abortion here, she goes elsewhere to get her safe and legal abortion, or she gets a very unsafe and illegal abortion (if she cannot afford the second) while risking her own life as well. Period. Let's keep our women and girls safe. Here.

Don't even get me started on the phrase - except in the case of rape or incest. Is that fetus any less viable? No. That simply means that if the woman/girl is not responsible for her situation, then she need not be "punished" by carrying the unwanted baby to term.

Please spend your time, energy and money on helping all the unwanted and unparented children in our country. Spend your time, energy, and money on educating young people about birth control. Stop politicizing women's bodies. This is a personal decision and no one should get to have an opinion except the women/girl who is making that decision.

Jenny Dewar,

Pownal