Dear Editor,
This is in response to Robert Rhinehart’s letter regarding abortion protecting mothers’ rights. His comments made me extremely angry. To try and tell people that a fetus is not a child until it is born is pure drivel.
I have gone through pregnancy and there is no one that can tell me that I was not carrying around a live human being for nine months. I felt my son move, kick and I heard his heartbeat. I saw his picture on the ultrasound monitor. My son existed before birth and now he exists after.
The second thing that irked me about Rhinehart’s letter was his comment on how “child birth is extremely difficult on a woman’s body.”
This actually made me laugh. Yes, pregnancy certainly can be risky for some women, but Rhinehart is talking like this is the 1800s and women are dying left and right in childbirth.
Women are going through much more difficult situations than childbirth like breast cancer, domestic abuse and sexual assault. I put much more importance on these than the risk of bringing life into the world.
If childbirth and parenting were as horrible as Rhinehart describes, then all women would be running out getting abortions or getting sterilized. His whole argument is completely ridiculous. He never brings up the possibility of adoption for those women who cannot care for their child. There are many childless couples that would love to adopt a baby.
I don’t know where Mr. Rhinehart is coming from, but he really needs to think about the seriousness of his comments and how uncaring he actually sounds.
Amy Goodson

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