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May 6, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: I am responding to a letter of May 1, “Support Reproductive Justice and Abortion Access.”
The writer refers to “pregnant people.” S cientifically, only t he female genus has the necessary physical organs that can result in pregnancy (ovaries, uterus). Men who present as female have male body parts and cannot get pregnant. Women who present as men and still maintain their female body parts are scientifically still female. Thus, pregnancy happens to pregnant women.
The writer also infers that the Dobbs decision that referred to fetuses as “unborn human being/s” got it wrong. However, any dictionary defines a fetus in humans as the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after conception to the moment of birth. Thus, in human beings, a pregnant woman can only beget a human being that is called a fetus from the eighth week of pregnancy. (Prior to that it is referred to as an embryo).
The Dobbs v. Jackson decision overruled the national right to abortion (it was never added as an amendment to the constitution, so it was never a “constitutional” right), though the Democrats always presented it as such, and returned the right to abortion to states to regulate. However, the Democrats do not want any state to enact a law that makes abortion illegal at any time throughout the pregnancy. They continue to fight against every state that has enacted such laws. Protection of the unborn during the entire nine months of pregnancy is not important.
With the writer, I agree that you should get the facts right before you vote this November. Is it legal for states to regulate their own laws regarding abortion? It is, but the Democrats believe the Supreme Court got it wrong. The writer calls the Dobbs decision draconian. In actually, the Roe v. Wade decision is the harsher, for it imposed death to over 60 million unborn in our nation.
MARILOU SCHINDLER Rockbridge County
