Dear Editor:
Like Barbara Stuart (Mailbox, May 18, Abortion Scars the Soul), I also appreciated Trevor Lauten's May 11 column, My Ideal Is to Make Abortion Unthinkable, in defence of the unborn.
Ms. Stuart writes encouragingly for those women who, faced with a difficult choice, bring their pregnancy to term.
But what of those "scarred" women? I am reminded of the justly famous American social activist and pacifist Dorothy Day (1897-1980), who dedicated her life to serving the poor. In her youth she had an abortion.
Bottom line: There is no action or experience, no matter how negative or disordered, that cannot ultimately, with an attitude of humility, be turned into something good, even heroic.
Arnold Shives, North Vancouver
