I wanted to thank Lisa Chen on her Op-Ed piece of low-income doulas (Herald, Feb. 28). She hit a lot of good points and I am happy that she recognizes the value of both the mothers and the babies, which often seems lost in this "It's all about me" society. She even went so far to not call the living human in a mother's womb just a "fetus" but rather a baby. Which does show the value she, and everyone else should have about babies.

While reading this, I couldn't help but reflect on the founder of a particular birth control and abortion clinic company, Margaret Sanger, and her colleague's blatant reasons for birth control and push for clinics that kill babies. Her intention for birth control and killing babies was to rid the world of those that would be born into inner city or unfit families that were an undesirable color. Margaret Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. "Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger," by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech. It was never to educate women of all their options, but to rid the world of "impure" people. Sound familiar?

It's always heartbreaking for me to hear pro-abortion supporters talk about their bodies and unwanted children. It has a ring of such selfishness. It as if they forget that there is another body inside them while pregnant, so it's not just their body that they are affecting. I also wonder how they would answer someone who asked if they decided one day that their 2 year old was unwanted if it would be ok and reasonable to kill him or her. It sounds shocking, but at the bare bones of the argument, isn't this the world's reason for abortion? Let's call it what "it" is - "it" is a baby, a tiny human that has every right to live as anyone else.

I know I got off topic, but Lisa not only does a good job being an advocate for low-income women and their choices, she has obviously done a good job making me reflect on what is most important when it comes to the issues of life in this world, it is wonderful and sacred.

Wes Olsen

West Seattle