Dear Editor:
When the previous MU chancellor revoked the hospital privileges of the Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic physician, he put the women of Mid-Missouri in an untenable situation with regard to our right to self-determination. It is now up to Interim Chancellor Foley to reinstate the doctor's refer and follow privileges at the university hospital.
Whatever anyone's feelings about abortion, as a member of the National Organization for Women, I know that such personal decisions must reside with the women who face them along with their attendant life-long consequences.
The former chancellor's quick acquiescence to legislative bullying indicated a failure to respect women as the primary agents of our own fate and a disregard for all the factors we must consider when faced with an unintended or unviable pregnancy. Bullies do not retreat when appeased, in fact, once Loftin had caved to legislative pressure, Sen. Schaefer was emboldened to think that he could go even further and dictate the research agendas of individual students.
I feel confident that Interim Chancellor Foley will stand up to the Legislature and reverse the decisions made by the previous chancellor with regard to Planned Parenthood, restoring MU to its previous stature as an educational institution where free inquiry is pursued and encouraged.
With Henry Foley and Mike Middleton at the helm, I once again have high hopes for Mizzou.
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