One Woman’s Choice--Pregnancy Serves as Test
The column (by Diane Klein, Dec. 3) about “Theresa” was moving, but she missed a very important point. She chose to have her child. No one had the power to force her to abort it. But that freedom can disappear.
Any government that will force women to bear children might turn around, in a few years, and force them to have abortions.
Who can say that in another 20 or 30 years we won’t reach a population problem of such magnitude that the government would use as a precedent its past control of women’s reproductive organs to engage new laws forcing abortions.
From Theresa’s story, I believe those doctors might have forced an abortion on her if the times, and the laws, had been different.
ELIZABETH LOCKWOOD
Irvine
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