To the editor:

Does your health insurance exclude abortion? Many businesses and not-for-profit organizations, including churches, offer health insurance to their employees. Most insurers offer a variety of policy options so the buyer can exclude certain procedures from coverage.

If your company, organization or church provides health insurance, has coverage for abortion been excluded? Does your insurance cover in vitro fertilization procedures, which generally result in the creation of leftover human embryos who are ultimately frozen or killed?

Check it out. It's not the pro-life thing to do.

CHRISTINE E. STEPHENS

Cape Girardeau