To the Editor:

Re Moms Marching for Gun Control (Op-Ed, May 11): I agree that the Million Mom March will be valuable in helping seize control of America’s gun control debate from the National Rifle Association and its political mouthpieces by allowing the majority voice on gun control take the advantage in organization and coordination away from the NRA. However, in a year in which a new President and Congress will be elected, and Supreme Court decisions will be made on the Violence Against Women Act and Nebraska’s attempts to terrorize abortion providers through an indecipherably vague partial-birth abortion ban, I view The spectacle of huge numbers of mothers organizing to protect their children with resignation and regret.

When will our culture have moved far enough beyond the view that women exist only to birth and care for [male] babies, that we witness the spectacle of huge numbers of women organizing to protect themselves? When will we see a Million Woman March demanding political action without being chained to sons, husbands, fathers, or brothers?