Ms. Sulianet Ortiz’s column (“It’s a woman’s right,” April 20) can be categorized into two areas: full of long-refuted arguments for abortion and full of self-contradictions. Most of her arguments for abortion rest on the false assumption that the baby is “her [the mother’s] body,” which it isn’t. It is a distinct individual being with its own DNA, its own body and its own humanity. And why on Earth does someone’s possible unwillingness to adopt another person’s child justify the killing of that child?

Self-contradictions include saying “don’t impose morals on others.” Ms. Ortiz, is that one of your morals? Are you forcing it on others? Another: “Women should be able to make decisions” and another, the worst one of all, is imposing the moral on the baby of the permissibility of killing someone if he or she is an inconvenience.

Ms. Ortiz, as someone who has been given a platform to influence public opinion, please do some more research on this extremely important issue before you write your columns, and open your eyes to the rights of everyone, including the unborn — not just mothers in a very difficult situation.

Morals are everywhere, and the issue is not whether to impose them, but which ones to impose.

Peter Swanson

Senior

Mechanical Engineering