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Dear Resa,

I just read your article about freedom, and you make many good points.  I am a person who, like you, feels that people need to take responsibility for their own actions and not depend on others or government to do it for them. 

I am disturbed by your remarks about abortion rights with regard to personal responsibility.  I lived in Milwaukee in 1966 at a time when abortion was illegal and birth control devices were written into Wisconsin law as "indecent articles."  From my standpoint, this was government control.  It first tried to prevent people from taking responsibility for their own reproduction, and second tried to prevent individual girls and women from protecting themselves after being raped or sexually abused.  The right to a medically-supervised abortion does not automatically give "total sexual freedom without any responsibility for the lives they create..."  Women do not seek abortion lightly.  There is no such thing as "gladly sacrifice" of the developing human life.  It is often a painful decision, brought about by an act that the individual woman had no control over. 

It is hard to believe that in this era of supposed freedom that women possess, many are still victimized by men and religion and are paying the price silently.  The government wants to take over the control that religion has always played in controlling women.  Women have to continually fight for their freedom from domination.  You are placing abortion rights on the wrong side of the list.

Sincerely,

Edith Rein

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