Guns are legal. Abortion is legal. It is insensitive for letter writer Michael T. Buttner to compare the termination of a pregnancy to the death of a 7-year-old in a classroom or a 25-year-old nursing student in a night club ("Abortion fosters culture of mass killing," June 15).
Unlike mass shootings, the only time "terror" is associated with abortion is in cases of domestic terror attacks on abortion providers, such as the November shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic.
When a woman decides to have an abortion, she makes the decision based on physical, emotion and financial needs — her own and her family's.
She makes that decision according to her own values, morals and conscience. It isn't a decision made flippantly, and portraying those decisions as a frivolous disregard for life is disrespectful to the 1 in 3 women who will have an abortion in their lifetimes.
Despite how time-sensitive access to abortion is, there are many laws which make it difficult for women to access abortion in this country, while the process of obtaining a gun in America has few limitations.
It is wrong to say that the intolerable violence of men with guns is in any way related to the decision women make to have an abortion and to control their own bodies. Stop blaming women's autonomy for men's gun violence.
Amanda Bates, Towson