Most comments out of context

Kevin J. Arsenault, as self-appointed Defender of the Faith, takes me out of context in so many instances one can only wonder whether he actually read, or understood my article (Guardian, Sept. 20). Arsenault deliberately evades and fails to deal with my central point, that the article by Ms. Pat Wiedemer, president of P.E.I. Right to Life, dealing with the safety of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486, was full of factual, medical and clinical inaccuracies and errors. Neither Arsenault nor Wiedemer have corrected those errors.

Nova Scotia considers RU - 486 sufficiently safe for self-induced abortions that just this week they made it available free of charge with a prescription at pharmacies. Clearly, Arsenault and Wiedemer prefer to live in a state of ignorance, rather than grace.

I would suggest that sex education, family planning and artificial contraception are the relevant criteria with which to formulate public policy in this area. This would go a long way to eliminating the need for abortions in the first place. Contrary to this, Arsenault would construct public policy regarding women’s reproductive rights based on his religion, or some first or third century doctrine. Why not astrology or scatology? I do not feel the need to impose my values on people or to control their lives; in such matters I am a libertarian. Some would argue that privacy is a constitutional right and includes the right to abortion. Abortion is a matter best left between a woman and her physician, rather than selfappointed Grand Inquisitors. Richard Deaton,

Stanley Bridge