Daniel R. Kempton wrote:

<<Even in America, abortion targets the poor, the vulnerable and racial minorities.>>

This is a deplorable attempt at writing a sentence, much less even-handedness. "Abortion" is not a protagonist. Planned Parenthood locates in poor neighborhoods because poor women need their services. It's grotesque to distort this fact, as anti-abortion fanatics have long done, into a racist campaign against the poor.

Neither are the poor passive ciphers to be exploited by conservative Christians in their crusades. The poor are autonomous agents who act as rationally as anyone else to their circumstances. The government forces not one woman to get an abortion. Not one.

Mr. Kempton is yet another man determined to insinuate theology into the public sector and call it virtue. For this mentality we have an ignorant loose cannon poised to become leader of the free world.