A Physician Who Disagrees With Killing Any Human Being

Dear Editor,
   Thank you for posting the picture of the human being at 22 weeks' gestation, an age at which he could be legally killed in Texas, even though he is probably viable ["The Fruit of the Pro-Lifers' Labors," News, Jan. 16].
   It's obvious that the embryos and fetuses in question are human life, since the doctors who kill them are only trained in human medicine.
   The only question in determining the "rightness" of abortion is whether some humans have the right to decide to declare other humans less than human and then to kill them even when there is no risk to the life or liberty of any other human.
   One of my volunteer positions is as a member of the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women. Abortion is violence with effects that ripple from the child who is killed and his mother, to the surrounding friends and family, and on to the future children in the family, just as family and sexual violence does.
   Your reporter evidently did not discuss this issue with anyone who does not earn his or her living by performing or promoting abortion.
   If you would like to interview a family physician that disagrees with the practice of killing any human being who is not a threat to the life of another, please contact me.