STEVE Potter's article on "viability"
(10 May) correctly reaffirms that a woman's right to choose is hers no matter what her gestation. However, it is insufficient merely to state this without having a clear position on what it means in practice.
which frequently abortion rights are discussed.
What anti-abortionists and some people who campaign for a woman's right often recognise/emphusise question of viability and how best to manage a (late) termination does not devolve onto the woman having the abortion but the workers carrying it out.
This b important distinction sinceit allows for a clear position that i is a woman's right to have her pregnancy terminated at any time and also enables health workers to have a dear policy with regard to the fate of the conceptus and management of the abortion procedure.
Thus the viability question should be posed not as 'till what gestation does i woman have the right to choose to have her pregnancy terminated".
but how should a termination be managed at any given gestation'.
Policy on this should be designed to ensure that the abortion is carried out with the minimum of distress to the woman concerned, those carrying out the procedure, and the abortus. This in turn requires a clear understanding of what the procedure being carried out is designed to achieve.
If it is to abort a pregnancy and prevent the existerice of an unwanted child, then the termination should be so to care taa tac conspous never experiences sentient state. if it is to end a pregnancy and provide a live child, then all appropriate measures for the child's well-being instituted.
TIMOTHY LAMBERT (Manchester)
After Torness I'Dlike to makea few brief comments about your article on the Torness occupation (17 May).
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