As long as your guest columnist has brought up her uterus (“I shouldn’t be forced to follow others’ religious views on abortion,” Oct. 11): Our reproductive organs (male or female) aren’t precious because they happen to be attached to our bodies. They’re precious because they have the potential to produce new human life. What could possibly be more important than that, other than (of course) the very survival of the mother herself?

E. Dennis HindeDept. of Journalism and Mass Communication