Fetuses’ life not only one at stake
In her recent visit to Georgia, Vice President Kamala Harris emphasized reproductive rights. One of the most eloquent statements I know is on the PBS program “Call the Midwife.” Though fictional, it portrays the poverty and despair of the times when neither abortion nor contraception was available. One episode shows the danger of “backroom abortions.”
If argument doesn’t sway people, perhaps a view of London in the day will raise awareness of the many factors involved in this issue — and that the life of what is not yet even a fetus is not the only life at stake.
KAREN EVANS, ATLANTA
Harris falsely attributes Georgia deaths to law
Regarding the Sept. 21 AJC article “In Atlanta, Harris focuses on abortion”: Of course Vice President Kamala Harris blamed abortion access. It’s the only relevant subject she knows anything about and will talk about in some detail. Yet, even here, she guards against stating whether she supports late-term abortions — something most of the country is against.
Sounding like Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate scold, Harris says, “How dare they,” as she chastises those who supported Roe v. Wade’s overturn and now institute restrictive state abortion laws. To accentuate her case, Harris uses the deaths of two Georgia women, but seemingly didn’t consider that, in each case, it was an attempted self-administered abortion using pills — not a prevented abortion — that led to the deaths. And, as the article pointed out, perhaps confusion over Georgia’s abortion law — not the law’s actual provisions — led to delayed medical care.
But, in fairness, abortion remains the only area about which the otherwise-unforthcoming Harris comes close to disclosing a “plan” she’d implement if elected.
GREGORY MARSHALL, MARIETTA
