To the Editor:
Katha Pollitt’s moral compass has cracked. Instead of cringing at undercover videos of Planned Parenthood doctors and medical staff grabbing the body parts of tiny babies to see which ones would be worthy of selling, she “cringed” at the apology video of Cecile Richards, the group’s president, after the first video came out, in which Ms. Richards was sorry for the tone of the doctors when discussing the crushing of babies.
It’s hard to defend something so heinous, but Ms. Pollitt gives it her finest effort, falling back to the new talking point that the stigma of abortion has to go.
Abortion will always have a stigma attached because its very nature is to end a life. One of the babies in the undercover video was still in the first trimester, yet his hands and legs were clearly just that. That child is a human being.
An abortion is not heart surgery; it’s not fixing a broken bone. It’s the taking of innocent life that betrays women and destroys authentic feminism. No taxpayer should be forced to pay for such behavior.
KRISTAN HAWKINS
President
Students for Life of America
Spotsylvania, Va.
