To the Editor:
I wish to address several aspects of Deb Baltzer's column "Senate Bill 85 -- The Right to Safety," (Feb. 27, 1995). Although Baltzer rightly supports women receiving access to safe health care, I find her perspective on this matter strangely skewed.
To say that "one of the only things more frightening than an unwanted pregnancy is the threat of physical harm in seeking help to deal with that pregnancy" leaves me wondering where this logic stops: with unwanted senior citizens, or perhaps quadriplegics? Is life really so cheap that discomfort is greater than humanity? I hope not.
Pro-life is a cause that stands for what it says. I am pro-life not because I want to see the quality of women's health care eroded. I do not support the taking of lives for the cause of life. However, I am also not "anti-choice." I am simply opposed to our government allowing millions to make the wrong choice.
I cannot say whether I support Senate Bill 85. I know only what Baltzer has written. I can say that we must not let the importance of life get lost in the midst of "choices."
