Re: "Clear – or simplistic?" by Robert O. Cooper, Sunday Letters.

Mr. Cooper asks if the miscarriage of a baby after a three-month gestation should be treated in the same way as a young adult who dies. Why not? Should the passing of one's spouse of three months be treated any differently than the passing of one's spouse of 20 years? Should we only mourn the death of old friends, but not those who we have only known a relatively short time?

Miscarriage is a devastating tragedy that involves the same grief, mourning, healing and remembrance as the death of children who were carried to term. The scars of this tragedy carry on long after the actual event, just as the loss of any other loved one does.

Mr. Cooper then grasps at straws attempting to compare miscarriage to abortion. Sin is traditionally a willful act that one does even though one is aware it is wrong.

A miscarriage is an involuntary action. It is no more sinful than a ruptured appendix, breathing or sneezing. Abortion, on the other hand, is a premeditated and fully voluntary act. Even young children can grasp the difference and immense significance of that difference.

Joe Wojno, Corinth