Abortion boom
Sir: Adrian Fitzgerald (Letters, 21 March) is concerned that an articulate lobby is pushing hard for even more permissive legislation re- garding abortion. This is quite true, as reformers do not want any 'lines dividing legal and illegal abortions.' They only wish that all abor- tions should be done under the same conditions as other operations.
Both he and Professor McLaren (Letters, 14 March) are upset at the financial implications that private surgery involves; but both by their attitudes are unwittingly making it more difliz cult for colleagues in the NHS to run a respect- able abortion service.
At a recent symposium on the subject it was Professor McLaren himself who pointed out that the Birmingham abortion figures were not by any means behind the rest of the country and that puritanical charges were therefore being cast in the wrong direction.
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