I believe letter-writer Leo Nagorski’s statement that “most Americans favor keeping Roe exactly the way it is” is untrue (“Blame for the Roe v. Wade uproar,” May 24, TribLIVE). I’d be interested in his source.
As for any uproar, the Supreme Court decision (if what we hear holds) will deny no one abortions. It merely places the legality or illegality of the subject in the states’ legislatures, where it belongs, and not in the court system, where unelected judges determine a very emotional issue.
The Roe decision stated incorrectly that abortion is a right guaranteed by the Constitution. Where? How? All I see is a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That’s the legal issue.
The moral issue Nagorski touches on in his last line, “Apparently, women will be forced against their will to deliver a child.” A child. A human being, a life with its own DNA, its own destiny. Not a part of the body like a kidney or a liver. It cannot be dismissed as a blob of tissue. Please think about this.
Dan Egan
Pitcairn