LETTERS: ABORTION AND WELFARE

To the editor:

If you would be so good to let another view grace the pages of the Missourian concerning abortion rights, I would like to speak for the pro-choice majority.

All that hysteria over partial-birth abortion is typically sensationalizing the issue. The majority of abortions are performed in the earliest stages of pregnancy, and they don't end with tougher abortion laws. Tougher laws mean poor women will die again as they used to before abortion was legal.

I have also been long informed that most who would seek to deny pro-choice to poor women are the very same ones heard to denounce welfare benefits to poor women and their children. Their efforts would be better spent in seeing government benefits remain generous to those children already born.

KAREN ROBERTS

Cape Girardeau