Proof of Abortion's Value

Colorado's liberalized abortion law, passed just last month, is already proving its value. In one case, a woman married to a temporarily sterile husband was raped in April. When it became clear that she was pregnant, she and her husband complained to the district attorney. She had become severely depressed, said one of her doctors in applying for the abortion permission, and the operation was needed to help relieve this depression and "because of obvious social consequences if the pregnancy is not interrupted." Under the old law, no abortion could take place unless it was proved that the mother's life was endangered; last week the operation -- the first under the new law--was performed at Denver's Presbyterian Medical Center. This week the second abortion is scheduled to be performed on a twelve-year-old girl, raped 16 weeks ago, who is described by psychiatrists as having suffered "significant mental injury."

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