I’m a bit baffled by Blair Polhamus’ Jan. 31 letter to the editor, “Pro-life group ignores feminism.” Besides feeling perfectly comfortable with dictating whose free speech will be tolerated in the public arena, Miss Polhamus says, “A key pillar of feminism is allowing people to control their bodies and to have choices about their lives.”

Tell me how an unborn baby girl is exercising control and choice over her body as scissors are jammed into the back of her head and her brains sucked out before she ever has the chance to look the woman who chose to conceive her in the face?

Abortion is not about choice, it’s about consequence. We are all free to make choices in life. But by making choices now, we limit what choices are available in the future.

I may choose to study hard and graduate with honors. But if tomorrow I chose to plagiarize a journal article and then get caught, graduating with honors is no longer an option for me. One choice has invalidated the other.

It is by not realizing this inescapable fact of life that Miss Polhamus has misconstrued her “pillar” of “true” feminism.

Mike Loosbrock

Graduate Student

Computer Science