Editor,
Lynn R. Chong writes great fantasy in her letter claiming a McCain-Palin administration would end abortion. She said her father attended Columbia University Medical School with Margaret Sanger's son, Grant. The New York Times said Grant graduated from Cornell Medical School in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1931, not Columbia in New York City. Grant could not have been paged to "bail out your mother" because Sanger was arrested on Oct. 24, 1916, when Grant was a young child.
It is pure fiction that Chong's father was a fellow student of Sanger's and that Grant bailed his mother out of jail. Then Chong quotes Marjorie Cohn to prove Palin opposes abortions for women who become pregnant because of rape and would criminally punish both the woman and doctor who performed the abortion. This is another fiction. A small amount of research would provide the factual statements of Palin regarding abortions that come from rape. Palin said, "I would not choose an abortion."
Cohn and Chong repeat hysterical lies that any political leader advocates making it a criminal act to perform an abortion. No such statements exist in reality; they're just in the fertile minds of people who create lots of goblins they try to pass off as truth.
Philip Howell
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