To the editor: Thanks for the valuable editorial about common abortion misinformation. Listed below are three extra ubiquitous myths:
Delusion 1: Abortions have long-term extreme psychological well being penalties. Actuality: Researchers have discovered that the commonest feeling afterward is aid. Lower than 10% of sufferers expertise important remorse.
Delusion 2: Abortions are harmful for girls’s subsequent well being and fertility. Actuality: Abortions carried out within the U.S. are safer than delivering a child. There isn’t any impact on fertility.
Delusion 3: Remedy abortion may be reversed. Actuality: The one examine to evaluate if remedy abortion could possibly be reversed needed to be stopped on account of unacceptably excessive ranges of adversarial results.
I want that the U.S. surgeon normal would tackle publicly all of this abortion misinformation.
Paula Tavrow, Pasadena
The author is an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Fielding Faculty of Public Well being.
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To the editor: A letter writer asserts that being pregnant issues to the daddy in addition to the mom. He bemoans the truth that “normally [of abortion] the mom is making a unilateral determination.”
I wish to level out that any man who is really involved concerning the penalties of a sexual encounter ought to increase this subject with the lady and be totally assured that they’re each on the identical web page earlier than he sleeps along with her.
Janice Blake, Manhattan Seaside
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To the editor: An anti-abortion letter author asks if males have any rights in any respect.
Sure, they do. Males might take pleasure in intercourse their complete lives and by no means have to fret about getting pregnant. Take pleasure in that proper, as a result of we girls can’t.
Michele Annino, San Marcos
