1 JULY 1995, Page 26

Sir: I would like to congratulate and thank you for

your sensitive and rational pro-life article published in The Spectator. I am a feminist and a socialist and am appalled that most people I meet professionally assume that I must be pro-abortion. The whole issue has been driven underground by the constant portrayal of pro-lifer cam- paigners as violent, religious fanatics. This prevents any debate on the real issues, which include the contradictions in the pro-abortion argument and way we do or do not value life in this society.

Your article has brought the pro-life issue into the open, and I note has attract- ed a lot of support. Please keep it in the open.

Andrea McHugh

9 Ashburn Gardens, Gourock, Strathclyde