Editor, Gazette-Journal:
In the late 1950s abortion was illegal. Women were fired when it became known they were pregnant. Child care was non-existent, transportation access scarce. Some women chose what they felt to be the only option available. Women died.
We don’t know much about one pregnant woman. She may have been ostracized. We know she gave birth, kept the child, but was unable to provide care and gave up the child. Imagine trying to find care for an infant while being denied access to the support systems that you were raised in. It was a heartbreaking, impossible task; the child she gave up would be renamed Robert Wittman.
Robert Wittman has been an advocate of medical choice; currently stating on his website “Patients and their doctors should be in control of their own health care decisions and everyday American families have the option to see a doctor of their choice. Health care is too personal for Washington’s one-size-fits-all mentality.”
Robert Wittman wants to remove th...