I`m convinced that what Anna Quindlen really needs is a course in simple logic. Her July 7 column on abortion defies reasoning.
She states that ”many Americans still don`t understand how central this liberty (abortion) is. . . . No one has leaned across the kitchen table and told them.” The point seems to be that if only pro-life people knew, personally, a woman who had had an abortion we would suddenly become illuminated with the ”truth” and change our minds on this issue. Nonsense.
”It is easier to be judgmental about a construct than a friend,” she writes. How does it follow that knowing someone who has had an abortion,
”sister, daughter, friend,” leads to acceptance of abortion?
None of us can judge a woman who has had an abortion. We can however, judge the killing of an innocent unborn child as evil and nothing less.
