Letter to the editor: Backward steps on abortion

In her letter “No time to go backward on abortion safety” (Jan. 29, TribLive), Maria Gallagher, legislative director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, complains that a law supposedly ensuring the safety of women is being considered for repeal. This law had nothing to do with abortion safety but was intended to make it as difficult as possible for women’s health clinics to stay in business. It was harassment, pure and simple. It called for redesign of buildings in ways that had nothing to do with safety (widening hallways, etc.).

The purpose of this law is clear. Nothing to do with women’s safety, as clearly evinced by the fact that laws discouraging safe medically performed abortions simply drive women back to Dr. Coathanger.

In reversing Roe, we have taken a huge step backward. Even highly Catholic countries such as Mexico and Poland have legalized abortion. We have too many people in this world, and there’s no better place to start than those who aren’t here yet and are unwanted by the parents. They often end up being a burden on society, institutionalized, in jail or on the street.

Nobody likes abortion (not even me!), but we are driving the health of our Earth toward a cliff. Too many people, driving too many ever-larger vehicles and heating ever-larger houses. Climate change is here, and many climatologists, who are the experts (not Donald Trump or Fox “News”), say it is already irreversible. If these people have their way, everyone will die, babies and all, born and unborn. We have no second home.

Fred Durig

Delmont