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The issue: Michelle Malkin's claim that Planned Parenthood is hurting families. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michelle Malkin needs to stop fooling herself ("Planned Parenthood's Privileged Predators," Opinion, Dec. 3). She blames the death of Holly Peterson on the abortion pill RU-486, when Peterson's death could be attributed to a misdiagnosis, or the poor treatment she received at the hospital. Malkin seems to want to go back to the days when abortions were illegal and women hurt themselves having abortions, which ended up causing much more damage than RU-486 ever has. Robert Pendley Beacon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you, Michelle Malkin, for exposing Planned Parenthood for...

Warning: This column contains some items that might be offensive to some.Planned Parenthood's outspoken activists remain stone-cold silent about Holly Patterson. She's the teenager who died of tragic complications from taking the abortion drug cocktail RU-486, which she obtained from a northern California Planned Parenthood clinic in September. Holly and her unborn child suffered a painful, bloody and prolonged death.Patterson was seven weeks pregnant when she received the chemical abortion regimen. After seven days and two desperate trips to a hospital emergency room seeking help for intense cramping and bleeding, she succumbed to "septic shock, due to endomyometritis (inflammation) due to...