To the Editor:

Re “The Facts Win Out on Abortion,” by Linda Greenhouse (column, June 28):

The fact that did not win out in the most recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion is that in each successful abortion a human life is lost. That is a fact whether you acknowledge the humanity of the unborn child based on a genetic argument, a religious one or as a self-evident truth, or even if you indulge in the rationalization that the fetus is merely a potential human.

JOHN MIRAGLIA

Old Bridge, N.J.

Note from KBJ: To progressives, fetuses are collateral damage.