To the editor: Thanks for the precious editorial about frequent abortion misinformation. Listed below are three extra ubiquitous myths:
Fantasy 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.
Fantasy 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 a impact on fertility.
Fantasy 3: Treatment abortion will be reversed. Actuality: The one research to evaluate if medicine abortion might be reversed needed to be stopped resulting from unacceptably excessive ranges of adversarial results.
I want that the U.S. surgeon common would handle publicly all of this abortion misinformation.
Paula Tavrow, Pasadena
The author is an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Fielding College of Public Well being.
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To the editor: A letter author 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 want to level out that any man who is really involved in regards to the penalties of a sexual encounter ought to elevate this problem with the lady and be absolutely assured that they’re each on the identical web page earlier than he sleeps together with her.
Janice Blake, Manhattan Seashore
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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 could take pleasure in intercourse their whole lives and by no means have to fret about getting pregnant. Get pleasure from that proper, as a result of we ladies can’t.
Michele Annino, San Marcos
