Letters

Stephen Kotz’s article on Congressman Lee Zeldin was distinctly one-sided [“Zeldin Joins GOP Colleagues In Seeking To Overturn Roe v. Wade,” 27east.com, January 10]. Several pro-abortion individuals and groups were cited, but not one pro-life organization. Surely at least one of those groups should have been heard from. The pro-life side is labeled anti-abortion, while the pro-abortion side is euphemistically called “women’s reproductive rights” or “women’s health care.”

But let’s stick to why Representative Zeldin might look with alarm at what Roe v. Wade has wrought.

Maybe it was the appalling sight of the Democrats in the New York State Legislature applauding and cheering the passage of the law that now allows infants to be destroyed right up to and including the day of birth — an act that can only be called infanticide, not “reproductive health care.” Abortion was supposed to be rare and treated with the utmost seriousness, not a cause for joy and celebration.

No doubt Rep. Zeldin is also aware that Virginia has just passed a similar law, accompanied by the governor’s bragging about how careful he is in deciding the baby’s fate — after it is born. Even in Europe, which progressives always seem to cite as a bastion of liberalism, abortions are prohibited after the third or fourth month.

There is also a very personal reason why Congressman Zeldin is not a fan of the trend toward unfettered abortions: His lovely and healthy twin daughters were born 4½ months into the pregnancy — an age the abortion lobby finds suitable for an abortion.

This is a very emotional moral issue. Both sides deserve a fair hearing.

Pat Flynn

Montauk

According to the nonpartisan website Factcheck.org, New York State’s new law permits abortions within 24 weeks of pregnancy. After 24 weeks, the website notes, a decision to abort “must be made with a determination that there is an ‘absence of fetal viability’ or that the procedure is ‘necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.’ That determination must be made by a ‘health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized’ under state law, ‘acting within his or her lawful scope of practice’” — Ed.