Abortion vote a big step back in time for women
I agree with Sarah Vine in last week’s Mail on Sunday about America’s abortion shambles being a dystopian warning for us in Britain.
I am increasingly worried about the direction of women’s rights. After hundreds of years struggling to gain the vote, equal rights and equal pay, in the last few years things are drifting back.
Women being cancelled by lobbyists, women unable to compete on a level playing field and now men deciding what we can do to our bodies. I despair for young women today.
O. Johnson, Wirral
As a grandfather, I can only report on how I felt placing my hand on my daughter’s stomach during her pregnancy.
How wonderful to feel her awaited baby kicking away, and all the time she was legally able to have an abortion had she so chosen.
Mike Critchley, Gosport, Hampshire
Seeing the pictures of all the demonstrations in the US and UK about the overturning of the Roe vs Wade ruling just doesn’t make sense to me.
Have these women not heard of the Pill? In this century, there are so many different possibilities if you don’t want to get pregnant.
Is it ignorance or indifference? All women are free to choose but
abortion should be the very last thought, especially in the later months of pregnancy.
E. Christe, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Every child should be a wanted child, because it’s heart breaking that there are children in many parts of the world who have to survive on the streets, as no one wants them.
Perhaps anti-abortionists would be prepared to adopt the resulting unwanted children themselves.
B. White, London
I remember the time, as a very naive single 23-year-old girl, more than 40 years ago, when the abortion bill was passed in the UK. We were promised that abortion
would only be used where the mother’s life or the unborn child’s life would be in danger.
Now, it has become a freefor-all and we in the UK are unable to stop this snowballing even more.
Sue Saxon, Rossendale
Following the Supreme Court ruling in the USA it is clear that the right to life is now paramount in that country.
Unless, of course, you are an innocent primary school pupil, in which case your rights are trumped by the sacred right of all Americans to purchase, carry and use powerful semi-automatic assault weapons.
Andrew Yardley,
Hinckley