To the editor:

When I lived in Wisconsin three decades ago, I joined a group of women who had established a “Pregnancy Hotline” in order to help women through a problem pregnancy and save babies’ lives. They were fine women, sincerely willing to give themselves and their resources to help other women. I had total respect for them, their cause and their caring methods of persuasion, which were never coercive.

Unfortunately, I believe that the Republican aristocracy, whom pro-lifers look to for salvation, don’t fit that mold. This is why I believe as I do:

A true pro-lifer would be concerned about the well-being of those saved children. They would find a way to make health care affordable for all Americans, by taking the profit motive out of the health care delivery system. It seems to me that profiting from people’s bad health is an obscenity; it seems like the rest of the world thinks that too.

A true pro-lifer would be concerned about the families who care for those saved children. At the very least, lawmakers would not give themselves raises without raising the minimum wage of earners. That is, if they were more concerned about their constituents than about themselves.