Where’s Operation Rescue for These Kids?

In response to “Running Out of Time” (June 21): Where are Randall Terry and his band of misguided zealots when it comes to the already born? What if Operation Rescue began to live up to its name and took some action to rescue living children in need?

What if “pro-life” extremists took it upon themselves to provide or to help to find adoptive homes for the increasing numbers of kids such as Destini and Chassidy (daughters of Tanya Shaw, who is dying of AIDS)? Or for handicapped, AIDS-infected, prenatally drug-addicted and otherwise hard-to-place youngsters?

Instead, so-called “life” fanatics misplace their energies in an attempt to chip away at the rights of American women--and to ensure that still more children who cannot be cared for will be born into an already overburdened world. What kind of life is that?

EMILY LEVIN LODMER

Malibu