I found Sarah E. Hunko's letter "Women need choice over their bodies" (SN 2/06) about abortion to be hypocritical. It would have been funny that people even think like her.

However, lives are at stake, and the issue needs serious attention. She states that she is "an adamant feminist" and that she tends "to agree with arguments that are pro-woman." She feels that abortion is an "issue (that) has always been (about) choice."

Since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, about 46,023,191 babies have been aborted in the United States. Another way to look at this casualty number is that it is more than eight times the number of Jews that the Nazis killed in World War II. I was always told that the United States was a country where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are supposedly valued. I guess this hasn't been the case since 1973.

It is hypocritical for feminists to claim that having an abortion is a pro-woman right. Do these feminists that support abortion understand that almost every other unborn child murdered is a girl? About half of the 46 million unborn children that have been grisly murdered are female — 23 million is nearly four times greater than the number of Jews that the Nazis killed.

It might be a woman's body in which the baby develops. However, it is a separate entity than the mother. The baby has different genes, a different blood type and in half the cases, it's not even the same gender as the mother. The issue being discussed is how we should respond to the fact that as of right now, a person has control over the fate of another. Ronald Reagan once said that "abortion is only advocated by those who have themselves been born." We shouldn't ignore this obvious fact. Pro-choice people are hypocrites and deadly ones at that.

Kyle Bristow
international relations freshman