Letter: Abortion isn’t a reproductive decision

Robin Berman's letter arguing that abortion is a reproductive decision illustrates one of the basic falsehoods of the pro-abortion rights rationale ('Advocate for women's reproductive rights,” April 15).

Reproduction is finished at fertilization, which is a whole week before induced abortion can possibly happen. Abortion takes place during the process of development, not during the process of reproduction. Using one example, the basic biology textbook 'Biology, The Unity and Diversity of Life, Fifth Edition” by Cece Starr and Ralph Taggart, has the meaning of reproduction listed in its glossary. It clearly and concisely says: 'reproduction, sexual. Process of reproduction that begins with meiosis, proceeds through gamete formation, and ends at fertilization.”

Many other examples of this basic science are in my book 'Conceived in Liberty.” It's time that more people are made aware of the false science that the pro-abortion rights movement has been using to deceive women into destroying their prenatal children.

Pete Kennedy

Monticello