Abortion is a legal medical procedure that in some situations needs to be performed. You don’t have to like it or agree with it; but it is legal and insurance should cover it!

To amend health care legislation — that is supposed to be for all — with language that denies women legal health care is not something that most women and, hopefully, most men will tolerate.

Obviously, those congressional leaders voting for this abhorrent legislation would never decide to vote for health care legislation that eliminated services for heart surgery or erectile dysfunction. Yet, they have no hesitation in eliminating legal health care coverage for women.

The Stupak-Pitt amendment needs to be stripped from the conference committee report and, while we’re at it, we need to demand the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortions, be stripped from legislation.

If you want to know who some of these folks are, voting for this obscene amendment, check out the “Family at C-Street.”

Comprehensive health care for all does not include eliminating legal health care coverage from any segment of society.

It’s time to contact your congressional leaders demanding this amendment be eliminated from the bill. It’s time people get over it where abortion is concerned. Approaching 2010, do we really want to go back to prior to 1973 and the obstacles women faced with an unplanned pregnancy? I think not.

Does anyone remember when birth control pills weren’t covered by insurance?

Kathy Todt, Bloomington