Doctor Abhors Legal Abortions

Most doctors who want to liberalize abortion laws are "guilty of intuitionism and pragmatism," Dr. William A. Lynch, a practicing physician, said last night.

"There are laws in the books against killing you," Lynch told an audience at Winthrop House, "and there should be laws against killing an unborn child."

Since human life begins at conception, every fetus has the right to live, even when the mother is pregnant by accident or rape. said Lynch, lecturer in Obstetrics at Boston College School of Nursing and past president of Carney Hospital.

Nor should abortions be performed where a seriously deformed baby is expected, he said, because "the quality of life is not more important than life itself."

Long experience as a physician has convinced him that most women seeking an abortion really want to give birth, regardless of what they say, Lynch explained.

The psychological ill-effects of abortion on the mother usually outweigh the anguish of bearing an unwanted child, Lynch concluded.