While Charlene Valentina Giordimaina is entitled to her pro-life stance (True Feminism Is Pro-Life, April 11), she would better serve readers of The Times by backing it up with facts instead of falsehoods.

She asserts that Planned Parenthood is “nothing more than an organisation that promotes and performs abortion on hundreds of thousands of women per year…”. While it is true that Planned Parenthood performed 324,008 abortions in 2008, the most recent year that statistics are available, it is also true that this accounts for only three per cent of their services delivered. The other 97 per cent were comprised of contraception (35 per cent), sexually transmitted infections/sexually transmitted diseases testing and treatment (34 per cent), cancer screening and prevention (17 per cent) and other women’s health services such as pregnancy tests and prenatal care (11 per cent). A total of 10.5 million medical services that were not abortions were delivered to nearly three million women, the vast majority of whom were near or below the poverty line.

If Ms Giordimaina wants to take a shot at Planned Parenthood, she needs to do better than to mouth the blathering of right-wing talk radio hosts.

Ms Giordimaina correctly asserts that proper services should be provided to women who choose to give birth rather than abort, yet “pro-life” politicians who oppose abortion are the same ones who would cut this very support. It appears their “pro-life” mantra ends at birth.

Regardless of the law there will always be some women who seek an abortion. We could go back to the days of back alleys and quack abortionists or we could get real. The suggestion for Ms Giordimaina is that she situates herself in the real world and gets some facts before submitting the preposterous opinion that women cede control of their own bodies in the name of feminism.