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In "Prochoice Puritans" ["Subject to Debate," Feb. 13] Katha Pollitt quotes my New York Times Magazine article in which I explained why my father, an OB-GYN, grew increasingly committed to serving as an abortion provider even as he and his patients were subjected to harassment in the late 1980s. I noted that my father's reaction might have been different had the women who came to him seeking abortions been "free love advocates for whom the procedure seemed a mere matter of convenience," language that prompts Katha to insinuate that I (and implicitly my father) am unwittingly doing the work of antichoicers. Would Katha prefer that I re-invent my father?
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