From Kay Ziegahn

Richland Center

To the Editor:

The word “abortion” comes from two Latin words: “ab”, a preposition meaning “out of” or “away from”, and “ortus”, a noun meaning “place” or “origin, birth”. English puts those two Latin words together, giving us a verb, “abort”, and a noun, “abortion”.

Every time a military mission is “aborted”, or a rocket launch must be aborted, it’s also abortion of a kind: the soldiers or the space team leave, they are aborted from their mission. But those abortions don’t upset anyone. A young victim of rape should have the right to a preemptive abortion so she can continue her life and education, and so society will not be burdened with the costs of supporting her unexpected motherhood.

My point is that abortion is removal from any kind of place. “Dilation and Curettage” should be the term used for a surgery after a woman is bleeding, and her much wanted pregnancy is unfortunately being miscarried naturally. If the mother and her womb die, there is no longer a place for a living fetus to continue developing. Why condemn a pregnant woman to death, if her much wanted pregnancy is no longer sustainable?

It’s insane that doctors have to fear prosecution for saving a uterus and its owner in such situations.