Gov. Wilson on Abortion

* Re “Target the Parents, Not Party Platform,” Commentary, Aug. 1:

I am pleased to see Gov. Pete Wilson interjecting reason into the Republican end of the fevered abortion debate. A genuine concern for life must extend beyond the fetal period, and an opposition to abortion must not ignore simple social policies that could discourage unwanted pregnancies in the first place. It all seems so obvious, and yet our politicians have spent the greater part of this election year deliberately circumventing the obvious in misguided attempts to discredit one another’s parties.

Thank you, Gov. Wilson, for daring to do the unthinkable--inject maturity and reason into a debate of escalating hysterics between two equally self-serving camps of emotionally manipulative political predators.

ROBYN MILLER

Riverside

* You got the first part right, Gov. Wilson, when you stated: “Government must never decide who can have children.” But not the second part!

Government also must never decide to allow the parents to abort these children. Protection is the role of the U.S. government as reflected in the Republican Party platform of Ronald Reagan.

DAVID RUDOLPH

Long Beach