Fight Over Abortion

* What The Times fails to grasp in your editorial, “The Abortion Issue: Feuding Without End” (July 10), is that the battle for unborn children’s lives can never possibly end until justice is preserved. How can America continue to tolerate discriminating against one group of people because of their age and residence? How can we, a liberated people, continue to remain liberated when we deny the most basic of civil rights, the right to life, to the weakest member of our society? Facing that kind of injustice, how can the “feud” ever end?

The only way an editorial like that could ever have been written is with a blind eye to the truth: Babies die in abortion. We cannot continue to ignore that truth and think we can fix the rest of society.

ANNE J. KINDT

Granada Hills

* The pro-abortion people are calling for an end to the abortion debate. I can see why. It just doesn’t serve their interests to continue discussion on the topic of a women’s right to choose. There are all those nasty questions like “Choose what?” and “How about the right of an infant to live?” These are questions that they just don’t like to answer, because they are bent on their own right to solve their problem pregnancy in a quick and efficient manner and to protect the right to do with their own body what they want.

When pro-abortion women speak of their own right to choose they are forgetting some basic principles. The right to life is more basic than the right to choose anything. Women’s rights, all human rights, begin even in the womb. Nobody has the right to choose to kill another human being. Until we rid ourselves of the selfish urge to kill, we will never see an end to “the social problems everyone agrees need fixing.”

JOHN W. HIGGINS

Los Angeles

* In your editorial, you state that before President Clinton’s executive order permitting female service personnel to obtain abortion services at U.S. military hospitals, “women facing unintended pregnancies often were forced to seek abortions privately at great cost and great risk in countries where the procedure is illegal.”

The use of the passive verb startled me. Who was (and presumably still is) “forcing” these women to seek abortions? Whoever it is should be stopped. Perhaps another executive order would do the trick.

PETE FRANCIS

San Pedro