Feb. 19-ABORTION: Letter was horrifying

Jim Hollingsworth’s letter of Feb. 12 (ABORTION: Privacy and right to life) was horrifying in its tone and insulting in its paternalism. It is hard for most to imagine the level of hatred for women and contempt for marriage that would prompt someone to write the words, “You may not rape, even your own wife, in the privacy of your own home.” Think about those words - NOT EVEN YOUR OWN WIFE!

But anyone who has been the victim of domestic violence or knows someone who has, knows exactly what kind of an individual makes these types of comments. Reading them sends a cold chill down the spine. That this individual would go on to quote the Bible while denying that a woman should rightfully control her own reproductive decisions is also nothing new to those who have been bullied and too often bloodied by those who claim to love them.

With alarming frequency religious texts are cited as the authority for taking decision-making control away from women who have long-since learned the price for fighting back.

It is from this element of society, that seven of nine justices delivered us in 1969 by recognizing that a woman’s fundamental right to privacy includes the right to make her own decisions concerning reproduction, within the confines of the Roe v Wade decision.

I will thank you for one thing, Mr. Hollingsworth. Too many of my “sisters” have become complacent about our freedoms. You have reminded us how very much we have to lose.

CAROLE STRINGER

Hayden