Sun’s abortion extremism

As a longtime Baltimore Sun subscriber, I was outraged at the editorial, “Abortion demagoguery” (“Feb. 6). It went well beyond political disagreement to a piece I would expect from a tabloid, not a once-respected newspaper. Anyone who believes that killing a viable child is infanticide was characterized as “an anti-choice extremist” in league with murderers and bombers. Would the same editorial board characterize anyone who believes in abortion after 21 weeks as in league with Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the abortionist who was convicted of killing three infants born alive during abortion?

The Sun doesn’t seem to care if the ideas of people who oppose abortion in the last three months are based on religious belief or rational thought. The indication is they are wrong and are “mistreating women.” This is personally offensive to me and I believe to many other Americans.

The editorial also says that the situation of abortions in the last three months are so very rare. Citing an unnamed “landmark study,” it states that only 1.3 percent of abortions are after 21 weeks. According to a Google search, there were 652,639 abortions in the United States in 2014 (based on statistics provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Multiply that figure by 1.3 percent and you have 8,484 which is a sizable number of late-term abortions.

In short, “abortion demagoguery” is a study in The Sun’s own demagoguery and blindness to any opinion other than its own.

Annunziata Kurek, Elkridge