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The prochoice activists interviewed in Florence Hamlish Levinsohn’s September 15 article seemingly assume that all abortion opponents are maliciously unconcerned about the possible consequences of a legal ban. But certain prolife groups have developed model legislation which calls this supposition into question. Consider the Women’s Right to Redress Act promoted by Feminists for Life. Instead of criminalizing women who receive abortions (a course which FFL utterly rejects), the Act empowers them to effectively prosecute unscrupulous and incompetent providers. Thus it gives women rights they lack under Roe, which has allowed a callous and profiteering industry to get away with injuring and killing an astoundingly large number of women, aside from what it has done to their children. Roe did not eliminate the back alley butchers; it simply permitted them to advertise in the Yellow Pages and victimize a larger clientele.
Mary Krane Derr
