In his Oct. 14 letter, "For Obama, is it Nobel Prize — or ignoble one?" Thomas E. Cayton wrote concerning the atrocities of abortion and the Catholic influenced comments made by Mother Teresa on her acceptance of her Nobel Peace Prize.

Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize three decades ago, Mother Teresa spoke of things that break peace: "The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing — direct murder by the mother herself."

It made me remember the lyrics... "Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good ... ." Some men believe this. Some men believe "their" contributions, even in rape, are worth preserving. Even in incest some men believe the sperm override the sacredness of the vagina and women's power to conceive or not to conceive. Some men worldwide have tried to control childbirth in some way or another for centuries.

The powerful body of a woman can produce life and men can only contribute their "offerings" toward making life. Women can choose when and how they want to have children. It is their birthright because they own the organs and the "freedom" to do it. No man can tell a woman that she cannot have an abortion. I personally have never had to make that choice, but I want women who need to make that choice to have the freedom to say "No, not this time, not with this man will I bring life into this world."

Mr. Cayton demonstrates the rat in the corner mentality. White men have lost the world they have made. White men's power is waning in this world and they know it. They are gathering their guns and hate and racism and sexism around them like poor drug addict Mr. Rush Limbaugh of radio fame. They are fighting to the death to suppress black men, brown men, yellow and red men, white women, brown women, yellow women, red women and any choices they still have. It is a joy to see the clamor for the last nugget of power. The times they are a changing!

Sally Blakemore is the director of WildMaker Art & Music School in Santa Fe.