A Tuesday letter to the editor tries to ridicule Sunday columnist Cynthia Tucker’s statement, “Let’s say a 40-year-old mother of three finds herself unexpectedly pregnant again.”

That couldn’t happen, the writer says, but Tucker was right. Years ago I was a clergy person in the days when couples came to their pastor with moral dilemmas and safe abortions were only available in one or two states.

A couple came to me whose five or six children were all they felt they should have. This was especially true because all of the children had arrived via C-section, which in those days could have endangered the life of the mother of all of those children.

Before the last delivery, the obstetrician had agreed to tie the woman’s Fallopian tubes. He did not.  He never told the couple that he hadn’t. But then the 40-year-old mother found herself unexpectedly pregnant again!

Some people are, to use the writer’s words, too ignorant to imagine real life problems. Patients and doctors should not have legislators, or people this ignorant, coming between them.

— Roger Buffett, Madison

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