Letter to the editor: In defense of Proposal 3

(In response to Bill Kwolek’s letter to the editor, "Proposal 3, It’s worse than you think,“ published last week. Read Bill’s letter to the editor here.)

October 5, 2022

To the Editor,

I feel compelled to respond to Bill Kwolek.

As a Woman, I am tired of hearing from men who have no life-threatening issues with pregnancy. You are not the sex at risk of dying during pregnancy or at delivery. The proposal on the ballot leaves abortion rights, fertility rights, the right to have as many children as you want, the same as is presently available now in Michigan. It protects all your reproductive choices from different groups who might have different views than you and your family, health care providers, and councillors. The way the State Constitution stands now, your rights—and life itself for Women—are at the whims of the legislature. The legislature that is made up mostly of lawyers and businesspeople who have no training in medicine and have almost never had to deal with the economic challenges of being an undereducated or low-paid single mom. Where were the bills passed by other legislatures making the father undergo mandatory DNA tests to make him pay for these babies? Nowhere! Where are the laws already written or proposed by these so-called pro-life advocates to adequately pay for these unwanted or highly physically compromised Children?

As for late-term abortions, there is no late-term abortion on-demand allowed by the proposal. Late-term abortions are done because the life of the mother is at risk, or the fetus is already dead. In either case, the mother getting the abortion would already be under the care of a physician or in an emergency room. She wouldn’t just wander into an abortion clinic. And speaking of abortion clinics, a receptionist or other unskilled employee isn’t licensed and therefore not able to OK any abortion after 26 weeks. To be a licensed health care professional, you have to have several years or more of health care training and pass a licensing exam.

In conclusion, I want to reiterate that there will be no late-term abortions except to save a mother’s life or end the pregnancy of a terminal fetus!

Louise Purfield-Coak
Village of Manchester

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by Sara Swanson

Sara Swanson is an editor, writer and a founder of the Manchester Mirror.