Court on Overseas Abortion Aid
The effect of the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Reagan/Bush Administration’s ban of overseas birth control aid if abortion is even mentioned is ironic and horrific, especially to the so called pro-life movement (“U.S. Refusal to Aid Abortions Overseas OKd,” front page, June 4). The result of the loss of funding over the past few years is millions of unplanned babies born to Third World women who were unable to get the birth control needed to space their children properly. This has resulted in hundreds of thousands (and eventually millions) of babies and young children slowly and cruelly starving and dying.
The pro-life movement’s attempt to strike even the word abortion from the vocabulary has therefore produced a death spree unmatched in decades.
I feel I can speak from experience on this subject. I have spent many years traveling and working in over 70 countries, particularly Africa.
I wish that the people who help block these funds could see firsthand babies made of skin and bones without the strength to even hold up their own heads.
The pro-life movement has placed ideology ahead of reality. It can be seen that the name pro-life is inaccurate. Pro-birth perhaps, pro-life hardly.
ROBERT DAVID, Long Beach
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