ABORTION

Regarding “The Abortions of Last Resort,” by Karen Tumulty (Jan. 7): I have long adhered to my belief that women have the right to decide what to do with their own bodies. That I still believe. However, I have been comfortable with my beliefs where I had no right to be--this I discovered while reading the descriptions of late-term abortions. When I had finished, my chest was tight and I felt so very sad. I was mourning, I guess, for the pain of all those women who have had to make the decision not to keep the beings that began to grow inside of them, for a society that fosters ignorance and poverty, and for children never born.

I was also mad to think that thousands of holier-than-thou people believe passing laws prohibiting abortion will somehow make this agonizing dilemma evaporate.

SAMANTHA DUNN, Glendale