In her Parenting column of June 27, Marion Levine lists several examples in which "hired propagandists have become geniuses at the public relations art of the denial of the obvious." She includes denial about the dangers of violence on TV, denial that smoking is habit forming, denial that air and water-pollution are dangerous, etc, etc. The list, however, was incomplete: It did not include the death-dealing denial that the unborn child is indeed a human being. Not to minimize the other "denials," but the omitted item has already cost more than 40 million human lives!

Ms. Levine believes that the psychological counseling resulting from the WTC tragedy might be a sign that "our nation wants to be more protective of children and their families." I agree with her conclusion that "We should not only hope this is so, but work to make it so." - especially when the child is as yet unborn and the family faced with a problem pregnancy.