Letter to the editor: Women's health choices should be their own

Robin Hammonds should be commended for her insightful letter “With abortion outlawed, who will take care of the babies?” She wrote, “No one religious group has the right to impose its religious beliefs on others.” This is manifestly true.

Back in the day, I attended the wedding of one of the loveliest young women I’ve ever known. A few months later, she died from an ectopic pregnancy because her religion left her no other option. What was pro-life about that?

It galls me that evangelical groups seem to have skipped over the admonition from the Bible to “judge not, lest ye be judged.” Now we have conservative legislatures in red states, composed primarily of uptight white men, trying to force women to carry pregnancies to term even if they are the victims of rape or underage incest. These people should be ashamed.

Men, unless they are medical professionals, should have no voice in a woman’s personal health choices. They certainly shouldn’t be making them a crime. That is one of the most bigoted things I’ve ever heard of.

Males, who have equal responsibility for making babies, shouldn’t inflict their questionable morals upon a different, nobler sex — or anyone else, for that matter — especially in a free society.

Jim Harger

New Kensington