Feiffer Follow-up

Valerie Reilly’s Aug. 6 letter condemning Jules Feiffer’s cartoon asserts it is “eugenically oriented” thinking to conclude that restrictions on abortion may lead to more abused, retarded or delinquent children.

Here’s a more reasonable assumption about the way that free access to abortion may prevent an increase in the number of problem children: Consider that people who turn to abortion do so because they have concluded that they are not, at this point in their lives, able to raise a child. They feel that they do not have the ability to meet the physical, financial or emotional demands of a child. If these people are forced into parenthood, some may be able to rise to the challenge; those who fail are the ones who unintentionally may increase the number of problem children in our society.

CATHERINE HRENDA

Glendale