Out of touch on the issue of abortion

Ms. Gustafson, in the Oct. 28 Fence Post, accuses "pro-lifers" of being angry and nasty. She says those who oppose abortion-on-demand never base their conclusions on serious thought and/or logic. She opines that women deserve respect and privacy when they pay a worker in an abortion clinic to terminate a baby's life.

I don't see anything very "private" about an abortion procedure when there are always at least four people involved: the physician performing the abortion, the unborn baby, the woman carrying the child, and the father of the unborn baby. Doesn't Ms. Gustafson curiously and conveniently omit any mention of a father's involvement? She implies that abortion is strictly confined to a woman's decision and selfish choice based exclusively upon only the woman's "personal reasons" -- but this is not true! She is grossly mistaken.

Unless Ms. Gustafson is under the impression that babies come from storks, she should consider that a man -not only a woman -- is involved in the equation (How did the baby get into the woman in the first place? By telepathy?) in her "woman's view" of abortion, which is seriously lacking in comprehension of this complicated issue. I won't even mention what the unborn child's view of the issue might be!

I wonder if Ms. Gustafson has ever set foot inside an abortion clinic? Her letter seems so far removed from reality that I wonder: did she fax it to the Daily Herald from the moon? If she's ever seen the interior of an abortion clinic she might get a wake-up-call as to where all of the "nastiness" originates. Abortion itself is nasty, not those who oppose its ubiquity; and certainly not "pleasant" to read about.

Roy W. Mashek

Downers Grove