We missed your April 2 editorial, “Parents rights to be parents under attack,” and wish we hadn’t.

We did read Sandy Charbonneau’s letter in the April 9 edition, and my husband and I have a few questions.

Where are Ms. Charbonneau and those with the same thinking for these young women when they are making that heart-wrenching decision?

Have any of them stepped up to any of these women with offers to love and provide for and raise the baby they have chosen to abort?

Where are they with their small cards before the young women make the choice to participate in the act to make that “unwanted” child?

Have you walked in any of their shoes?

Unless you and your friends with similiar views are with your daughters 24-7, can you be absolutely positive maybe one of them has not had to make that choice?

Afraid of your reaction? Alone.

Yes, it may be a choice you do not agree with. It’s probably a decision that in later years will be regretted.

But for many, it may be the only choice.

It is not an economic-related choice; poor women do it as do affluent.

I would much rather have the option available, with or without parents’ permission, than for these scared young women to go into the back alleys.

I don’t believe every aborted child is unwanted. I do believe that for many young women, at the time, it is all they see.

As for who paid for the abortion, does it matter?

Will you boycott that business?

What if it was your supplier of chocolate?

If it was your tax dollars, would you withhold your B&O tax?

So, maybe, Ms. Charbon-neau, instead of putting forth your energies to send these young girls into the back alleys, maybe you and your friends can energize an effort to really push for teen abstinance, or, take your wealth and either adopt these babies that are unwanted or fund a home for these young girls to reside in safely with their child and learn a skill to provide for them.

I’m sure your daughter wasn’t one of these young girls.

But if she had been, would you love her any less?

ANN WELSH

Port Orchard