A pregnancy involves the lives of two humans

Theresa Brown (“Abortion and a Woman’s Centrality,” Feb. 26 Forum) uses an ectopic pregnancy to justify any abortion after five months of pregnancy, as if this were a typical reason given for all abortions. It isn’t. This would be the equivalent of expelling a thousand high schoolers when one student is caught smoking in the bathroom.

Moreover, she never gives any sources when she states that pro-lifers would want the mother to die to save the child. This is just a false talking point that pro-abortion advocates have been spewing for years in the attempt to paint pro-lifers as against women. In reality, prolifers believe in loving the woman and the child, saving the woman’s life when threatened. Moreover, that does include free prenatal care, expert medical care for both mother and child, and everything from diapers to day care from over 3,200 pregnancy resource centers in America, 22 right here in our area (1.800.712.HELP).

Yes, pregnancy is, in Ms. Brown’s own words, “a motherchild dyad.” It’s a mother and a child. Only a “rigid” pro-abortion supporter would deny that two human beings are involved in a pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancies are rare and deserve medical treatment. Killing a preborn child should be just as rare. E.A. SVIRBEL Whitehall Now, we learn that during his confirmation hearings, he apparently told an untruth about having had personal contacts with Russian officials during the presidential campaign, when questioned on this issue by Sen. Al Franken.

In fact (as The Washington Post has reported), he spoke with the Russian ambassador on two occasions — one of them during the Republican National Convention and the other in his own Senate office.

Mr. Sessions has claimed that this was part of his role as a member of the Armed Services Committee, but other members of that group have made clear that meetings with ambassadors were not part of their regular charge; rather such meetings fell to the Foreign Relations Committee. To make matters worse, Mr. Sessions, of course, was one of the first public officials to endorse President Donald Trump and was a leading member of his campaign team.

While it is heartening that public pressure (not Mr. Sessions’ sense of propriety) has finally led to his recusing himself from any investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, he should not get off so easy. If he perjured himself during congressional hearings, he should be charged with a crime. Short of that, he should resign as attorney general. As Rep. Nancy Pelosi stated on Thursday, he is the “top cop” in the nation and we cannot have that role filled by someone with a corrupted sense of truth and justice. LUCY FISCHER Mt. Lebanon

I am deeply concerned that permission to carry a concealed weapon might spread by law nationwide. Bad enough that some states have granted this right.

Why should any insecure person have the right to carry a concealed weapon when by so doing everyone around that person would thereby be less safe? It just doesn’t make sense. GLORIA SNYDER Mt. Lebanon