Letter: It's about killing. Period.

Editor, Daily News:

Thank you, Mary Stuller ("Rest of the Story," May 29) for finding a way to respond to the newest bizarre brainchild of the abortion industry.

The first brainchild substituted "pro-choice" for pro-abortion. Now we read that even though, as Fred Yarrington writes, there are 1.3 million surgical abortions a year, and statistics show that Planned Parenthood now does over 250,000 thousand surgical abortions a year, they are really trying to reduce so many abortions.

Locally, we have seen this idea promoted in a full-page Planned Parenthood ad on Mother's Day. Later it was promoted in letters from Kim Slote of Planned Parenthood and Yarrington. Hillary Clinton promotes it on the national level.

It seems that those who oppose birth control access and education are the real abortion promoters.

Who are they kidding?

Alan Guttmacher talks about billions, not millions spent on public birth control programs such as the Planned Parenthood teen clinics mentioned by Slote. After 30 years of this spending, statistics show, besides a staggering number of abortions, sexually transmitted epidemics are replacing earlier, smaller problems. In New York City high school nurses' offices you can get candy-flavored condoms. Yet New York City has almost double the national abortion rate.

Many recent letters against the war in Iraq focus on the killing. All that killing isn't right, they say. Where are the letters that should be speaking out against all those innocent babies killed by abortion!?

Eileen and Joe Hennessy, Naples