Tragedy and challenge

Re: “Clinical, but Emotional Too” [Oct. 7], John Horn says, “If [filmmaker Tony Kaye] didn’t show those minuscule body parts, he also couldn’t show the photograph of a woman who killed herself trying to end a pregnancy with a coat hanger.”

When people make this kind of emotional appeal, I always wonder if they are also thinking that this mother died in the process of trying to kill her own unborn child. It is very serious that she never had the time to repent of that sin. She must be suffering a great deal on the other side. I feel the tragedy both for the babe and the mother.

These abortions are a product of the pimp and whore mentality, of women so desperate for a man and for sex that they will do just about anything; of men so sexed up that they have an insatiable appetite for every woman they can bed and leave behind with child.

So I am throwing out a challenge to John Horn. What can a journalist such as yourself do to raise the cultural level a notch or two? If Kaye’s work touched you at all, remember that even one person can make a difference! A woman doesn’t have to have sex with everyone, then try to kill the child she conceives and [by doing so] kill herself.

Brenda Ziser

Austin, Texas