Roe v. Wade and the brutal assault on personal liberty

A message from your Supreme Court

Message from the Supreme Court to 80 million adult women of childbearing age: "We think you are too dumb and immoral to manage your own uterus so we are going to let your state do that for you. But don't worry your pretty little head about it because now you get to pack a loaded pistol in your purse anytime you want!"

Mark Ralston, Roseburg

A brutal assault on personal liberty

There is nothing more wrong and dangerous in the USA today than the ugliness, ignorance and authoritarianism of the fascist/fundamentalist/Christian drive to control the bodies and choices of women and girls. It is an obscenity in its reach to deny agency to women of all ages. It is tyranny and a brutal assault on our essential liberties.

Morgan Songi, Eugene

Deception, prejudice, bullying

Supreme Court, shame on you! You have brought more shame to our already turbulent nation. Just what does a landmark decision stand for, anyway?

Not only should your tenure not be for our lifetime, but also you should be periodically and randomly required to take a sort of "litmus" test to see what is determining/undermining your thinking. This majority decision reeks of deception, prejudice and bullying.

Read more:Eugene abortion rights advocates protest Supreme Court decision in droves

I am saddened.

The sense of overwhelm is closing in. Just who can be trusted?

Leslie Suva, Lincoln City

Helplessness and hopelessness

We seem to have a short statute of limitations on “never again.” How many times can our shattered hearts find anything left in the litany of tragedies and senseless violence that pounds us into numbness of mourning?

A recent weekend saw mass-casualty shootings leaving 17 dead and 62 injured across the U.S. The May 14 suspected racially motivated attack in Buffalo killed 10 Black people. At least 68 recent mass shootings have occurred nationwide, including the May 24 shooting in Uvalde that killed 19 students and two teachers.

Countless families are broken beyond endurance. More cities are touched by evil and shredded by anger and hatred, paving the way for sanctimonious judgement and bitter recriminations. This is a country being torn apart by war within itself.

Already the blamers, shamers and naysayers have lined up to take their shots across the chasms that further divide us: the political opportunists and the radical instigators.

Each victim was an ensouled being — not one of them deserved to be murdered in cold blood.

Beyond the outrage, grief, helplessness and hopelessness, indignant rhetoric and pious exhortations, what breaks my heart most is the shortest verse in the bible: John 11:35. “Jesus wept.”

Carole Seeley, Eugene

Learn from the Red Coats

I've been pleased to learn from Republicans in Congress that gun violence is caused by mental illness rather than the grotesque popularity of U.S. gun ownership. I must conclude that Great Britain, with a per capita gun homicide rate that is one-tenth of ours, must have the secret for eradicating mental illness. We need to learn from the Brits, and fast.

The other possibility is that having 1.2 guns for every U.S. citizen, as we now do, is itself a contributor to widespread mental illness.

Jim White, Florence

Voters have the final say

I have voted every year since my service in Vietnam, or tried to.

In America, voters should have the final say. But Trump and far-right extremists engaged in a criminal conspiracy by helping to promote and pay for election sabotage that culminated in the deadly attack on our country on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Jan. 6 House Select Committee's public hearings are presenting the facts about the attack and its lead up. The committee's investigation has been nonpartisan and factual.

We must support the Jan. 6 Committee in investigating and holding accountable everyone involved in this crime — to ensure it never happens again and make sure that our elected leaders respect the will of the people.

Even if it means Trump and company face criminal charges. Especially so.

Michael E. Peterson, Eugene

Turning the other cheek

In July, President Biden will visit Israel then Saudi Arabia, two of the worst human rights violators.

For 74 years, Israel has militarily occupied Palestine. Its squatter colonization and daily persecution of Palestinians have been so contemptible that the State Department has had to ask Israel to let up on its egregious violations of human rights during Biden’s visit.

It is ironic that billions of U.S. tax dollars poured into Israel have brought so little leverage over the Zionist regime. Additionally, Washington has been mealy-mouthed when it comes to the murder of American citizens by Israeli soldiers. Among them, Shireen Abu Aqleh, a journalist assassinated in May; 78-year-old Omar Assad, detained under harsh circumstances at an Israeli military checkpoint in January; and in 2003, Rachel Corrie, an American student, killed defending a Palestinian home.

Saudi Arabia is no better — a military dictatorship with suffocating control over its 34 million people. Its oil windfall has kept the majority of the people under an oppressive Wahhabism and has led to a destructive war in neighboring Yemen.

Obviously, the malignancy seeded by Israel and Saudi oil lobbies over U.S. Middle East policy will not be eradicated soon.

M. Reza Behnam, Eugene

Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf: LIV Golf heads to Oregon, where local officials aren't happy

Can’t blame Biden for this one

Stop blaming Joe Biden and the Democrats for high gas prices and inflation. The Democrats in Congress passed legislation to stop price gouging. Every single Republican voted against it. The Democrats don't have a big enough majority in the Senate to advance the legislation.

Big Oil wants you to blame Biden. It wants you to vote for the GOP so it can keep price gouging and polluting.

The oil companies are making record profits right now. Isn't that what unregulated capitalism is all about? Why should they cut prices? Because they care?

You can't complain about big government, then expect the government to come to your rescue.

Irene Henjum, Springfield

Letters should be 200 words or fewer and sent with the writer’s name, address, and daytime phone number via e-mail to rgletters@registerguard.com. Letters may be edited for length and clarity, and maybe published in any medium. We regret that owing to the volume of correspondence we cannot reply to every letter.

The Opinion Page runs Sundays and Wednesdays in The Register-Guard.

This article originally appeared on Register-Guard: Roe v. Wade ruling a brutal assault on personal liberty: letters