Letter: My sense of loss after abortion

Sir: Why is it that many who speak loudly (and rightly) about the rights of women seem quite unconcerned that two million of the four million human abortions performed in the UK since 1967, must, on statistical grounds, be assumed to have terminated female lives? (Sex, together with many other physical characteristics and aptitudes, is determined at the moment of conception). Two million women and girls have been denied the right to live, by someone else's "choice".

JOHN H DEAM

Bristol