ROE V WADE Decision’s effects felt around the globe
THE recent Roe v Wade US Supreme Court abortion decision must be sending shock waves around the globe.
As the Irish academic Dr Jennifer Cassidy recently wrote: “The world continues to watch America become unrecognisable.”
America’s four years of Trump’s presidency succeeded in damaging that country’s international reputation to the point that it may well never recover from.
This is no longer the great country that for over a hundred years attracted countless millions who aspired to enjoy their democratic values.
With a country now completely divided, gun laws (or lack thereof) out of control and this appalling decision by the Supreme Court, Margaret Atwood’s fictional Gilead may be frighteningly closer to fact than fiction.
Rodney Williams
Sandy Bay
RIGHTS BEING TRAMPLED
American women’s rights are being trampled on and pushed backwards after the decision by the Supreme Court, most of them old men and extremely right of right!
Now the Australian Christian Lobby, who put adverts in the paper against Bridget Archer, are calling for the same sort of ruling for us here in Australia.
It’s about time that they realised we don’t espouse the same wacky ideas as many Americans do and that Australian women have minds of their own and won’t be dictated to by a minority group who want women to be subservient.
FAMILIAR AMERICAN TALE
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Glennis Sleurink Launceston
try’s gun obsession encouraged by leaders and courts, Taliban 2.0?
No just the normal USA 1.0
Peter M Taylor Midway Point
COUNTRY OF COWARDS
America’s Republican-heavy Supreme Court Judges have reversed the Roe v Wade decision made nearly half a century ago, meaning around half of America’s population now gets to tell the other half that they’ll have to live their lives the way they choose to live theirs.
What’s wrong with giving women the right to decide what happens to
their own bodies? The Supreme Court decision was based on the fact that the word “abortion” is not mentioned in America’s Constitution.
Neither is the word “airliner”. Put an end to air-travel too, then?
And with many Americans seemingly willing to convert their fellow Americans into piles of mince with semi-automatic weapons most soldiers would be confident to carry into any war zone, just how sacred is life in America anyway?
And how many anti-abortion Americans are pro-guns?
Certainly, guns can be used to protect life.
But is it a Christian desire to preserve the sanctity of life that’s driving gun sales in America?
Or is it a reaction to the fear of death that gun violence is causing.
Home of the brave? A country of cowards looking and going backwards, more like.
Thanks largely to America’s unbalanced Supreme Court Judges.
Michael McCall Primrose Sands
MISERY TO FOLLOW
The recent decision by the USA Supreme Court to overturn the case known as “Roe v Wade” is a USA decision and a USA problem, and I shouldn’t fret, but I can’t help worrying that it will cause problems here too.
I’m a bloke, and an old bloke, so I tell myself that it is none of my business, but I like to think I’m a principled bloke who likes laws to be symmetrical.
Most laws are: you don’t burgle my house; I don’t burgle your house. But some laws aren’t. They are “dog in a manger” laws. Laws prohibiting abortion are relevant in this case.
No one claims that abortion is a terrific idea.
No one is about to suggest that young women should wear short skirts and low cut blouses so they’ll get pregnant so they can have an abortion.
It is just a sad complexity of our society that, while women have some control over their fertility, they don’t have complete control.
Further, some women suffer social circumstances that conspire to exacerbate misery.
Abortion will always be controversial. The Roe v Wade case reached a reasonable compromise. Its overturn is an unreasonable extreme likely to cause much misery.
Keith Anderson Kingston