ABORTION: Letter politically expedient

I have a single question for Mr. Hans Neumann:

It is my understanding that children coming to the United States from Central to South America as illegal immigrants are doing so because of crime and poverty. You want to compare the death of a dog under highly questionable circumstances to women’s legal health care needs. Would you like to compare those 50 odd million “deaths” from multiples of reasons inclusive of miscarriages and stillbirths over a period of 40-plus years to children fleeing some particularly tragic circumstances in their own countries? Especially in countries where the governments seem incapable of or unwilling to take care of their own people? Or are some tragedies more politically useful than others?

JOAN E. HARMAN

Coeur d’Alene