Letter: 'Far from eradicating abortions, the return to pre-Roe patriarchy, politics and states’ rights threatens to more than double our current abortions, back to the horror before Roe.'
• I prefer matriarchies to patriarchies. Women seem to me more compassionate, more conscientious, and generally — not just domestically — more competent. Decisions as crucial as life-and-death reproductive decisions are best left in the hands of females.
• I prefer morals to politics. Mothers seem to me more invested, more personally and family concerned, and more thoroughly informed than senators and Supreme Court judges. I trust mothers more than politicians in most matters, and in birth matters more than most. • I love American variety, and so cherish states’ rights. But some issues are so nation-wide significant, so far beyond local custom, that states’ rights can be trusted on them only when the states are right. Two of the more obvious issues in that category are slavery and abortion.
• The CDC tracks significant long-term reduction of abortions under Roe. Since improved abortion reporting resulted in that infamous “million-abortions year” of 1980, the U.S. abortion rate has trended down to well-below pre-Roe rates, from 27 per 1000 women to 11 among every 1000, so that now it’s 1% of American women aged 18 to 45, rather than almost 3%.
Far from eradicating abortions, the return to pre-Roe patriarchy, politics and states’ rights threatens to more than double our current abortions, back to the horror before Roe. As a fierce pro-lifer, I’d be thrilled with anything better than Roe. This isn’t it.
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