Anti-Abortion Group Demands Ouster of AIDS Task Force Head Over Remark
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The Right to Life League of Southern California demanded the ouster of Dr. Neil Schram as chairman of the Los Angeles City-County AIDS Task Force because he recommended that women infected with AIDS consider abortions.
Susan Carpenter McMillan, a spokeswoman for the anti-abortion group, said Wednesday that her organization was “outraged” that Schram would counsel such women to have abortions merely because their unborn children have a 30%-to-50% chance of contracting the fatal disease.
“To me,” she said, “that same child also has a 50%-to-70% chance of not getting the disease.”
But Schram said he could see no reason to alter his position. “It is absolutely, medically correct,” he said, “for the physician to notify a pregnant woman infected with the AIDS virus that one of the options for her to consider is an abortion.”
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