Reader Responses to Rights, Now

The only two letters in the Nov/Dec issue commenting on the Cecile Richards piece (“Rights, Now,” Sept/Oct) were so hateful they made me cringe. Then it occurred to me that no one wrote in with positive comments because the Brown community is so overwhelmingly pro-choice that no one felt the need. I’m very glad that is the case, but it reminds me that eternal vigilance is, as it always has been, the price of liberty.

You should have sent a more objective interviewer–this could have been written by the obnoxious self-aggrandizing Richards herself. You have graduates who are pro-life, and we do not appreciate being denigrated by a woman whose bread and butter is death. Planned Parenthood does virtually no adoptions or maternal care; abortion is not healthcare. Shame on Richards and on you. Yet you will troll for donations from those you have insulted.

The worshipful tone of the piece on Cecile Richards (“Rights, Now,” September/October) was nauseating. Her lucrative career has presided over, literally, the slaughter of innocents–called “reproductive rights” to soften the harsh reality. In Roman times a father, as head of household, could condemn a newborn to starvation or exposure. Now it is the mother who may give the thumbs up or down.