I agree with the editorial's position that both parties have mishandled this issue.

I do not agree that Harder is "as perfectly suited to chair the committee as any MP". 

Harder has been clear and consistent about her opposition to women's freedom of choice for abortion.

The Committee's activities emphasize attention to violence against women.

Those of us who are old enough remember, fully, and tragically, the consequences for women of the long-standing criminalization of abortion. This, indeed, was legal and institutionalized violence against women, and resulted in unknown numbers of women's deaths.

Harder's opposition to freedom of choice is inherently an expression of that violence against women. She is therefore unqualified to chair this Committee.