re: "Historic ruling offers pro-choice hope" (BP, Opinion, February 21, 2020)
Dear editor,
Sanitsuda Ekachai is as succinct and compassionate as always in "Historic ruling offers pro-choice hope" (Bangkok Post, Opinion, February 21). There is no just reason why a woman should not be able to have a safe, legal abortion on request, without having to justify that often difficult and most personal decision to anyone save herself.
The traditional Thai Buddhist opposition, based solidly on unsubstantiated superstition, merely highlights yet again how far from the wise teachings of the Buddha the nationalistic religion known as Thai Buddhism is. Naturally, those who like to live by beliefs in souls and the like are perfectly free to choose not to have an abortion themselves, but just law will not allow them to force their unfounded personal beliefs on others.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on February 22, 2020, under the title "Unfounded beliefs" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1863084/unfounded-beliefs
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