Editor,
Margaret Sanger's son, Grant, was in my father's Columbia University Medical School classes. His name would be broadcast into the hallways, that he was "needed again to go to jail and bail out your mother." The young medical students cheered for her good cause.
Sanger, a public health nurse, ran illegal clinics to get diaphragms to New York City's poor women, because many immigrant women died in childbirth with no prenatal care or died in botched, illegal abortions - leaving behind children with no mother.
Sen. John McCain should know by now that women, every day of our reproductive lives, have different health risks than men. His failing shows in his choice of Sarah Palin for a running mate. Palin and McCain have vowed to have a U.S. Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade, forcing McCain's and Palin's conservative beliefs on all.
As Marjorie Cohn recently wrote: "Palin's choice to have a Down syndrome child and her teenage daughter's choice to continue her pregnancy have made right-wing evangelical Christians ecstatic. But while she chose pregnancy, Palin would deny a woman victimized by rape or incest the right to choose abortion and then criminally punish both the woman for having one and her doctor for performing it."
Those of us who love freedom and family must continue to fight for reproductive rights just as Sanger did and cherish Roe v. Wade - and help elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
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Lynn R. Chong
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