Letters to the editor: Concern for pregnant persons; no right to stopping a life process
Fearing for those unable to make a choice
Regarding the June 25 article, “What does the abortion ruling mean for Ohio?” I am horrified and shocked that abortion will become illegal in America and in Ohio. As someone who had an abortion in Akron in 1994 when I was a college student at the University of Akron, I know firsthand how having a safe and legal abortion is a vital choice, because if I was forced to give birth against my will, I would have self-harmed to end my pregnancy. I fear now for every pregnant person who will be unable to make that choice in Ohio because the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled 6-3 to overturn a fundamental right that Americans had for 50 years.
Where are the laws protecting survivors of rape and incest by advocating for the death penalty for sexual assault? Where are the laws mandating vasectomies or birth control for men? What SCOTUS and anti-choice extremists fail to realize is that abortion will just go underground and people may die having an illegal abortion, that child abuse will rise because people are being forced to be parents before they are ready and that every heterosexual male will be forced to pay child support for a kid they never wanted.
I encourage everyone to vote Democrat to save abortion and fight back against trigger bans, bounty-hunting and forced birth. Pregnant people are not handmaids, and abortion will happen, whether legal or not.
Nancy Dollard, Lake Township
Good riddance to Roe v. Wade
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade. That’s a good thing.
There have been statements that Roe v. Wade was a precedent that was set almost 50 years ago and precedents should have status. Precedents should be given consideration, only when they are not wrong. If they are unethical, they should be overturned as soon as possible. Slavery in this country was a precedent for over 100 years but needed to be reversed. So, there should be no question that when a precedent is inherently wrong and immoral, it should not have status to remain and needs to be ended.
This Supreme Court noted that the U.S. Constitution does not give any right to abortion. However, it should be noted that the Constitution does give a right to life.
Everyone should understand that conception begins a life process. There should be no question about that. The liberal Supreme Court in 1973 said in Roe v. Wade that they couldn't determine when life begins. Viability outside the womb became a red herring to distract from the obvious condition that a life process started at conception. It should have been obvious to them that if a life is started, then stopping it becomes murder!
So, the precedent of Roe v. Wade needed to be set aside. People should be held accountable for their actions. Almost 50 years of infanticide (murders) have been possible because of Roe. Now, accountability has become possible under the law.
Jerry Mettler, Granger Township
No right is sacred to anti-abortion politicians
I have always tried to be a voter who takes a candidate's stand on all of the issues into account. But after decades of serious consideration, I've arrived at the position that no matter where a candidate stands on all other issues, if he or she opposes abortion rights, he or she will never get my vote.
I admit this with considerable reluctance. For me and many others, single-issue voting is an anathema. But a woman's right to deal with her pregnancy in whatever way she chooses is as fundamental, as profound, as any human right.
If a politician can wage war on the sovereignty each of us has over his or her own body, that politician is willing to stomp on the free exercise of any right.
Mark Ira Kaufman, Silver Lake
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This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Readers on both sides react to Supreme court abortion ruling
