Letters This is a woman's decision

Readers respond to Question of the Week: What's your stand on post-Roe laws?

Abortion is personal

This subject is so deeply personal and private that it should not be used as journalistic, religious or political fodder. Yet that is exactly what has happened. It is incomprehensible that, in a free country, any rational human being should be so arrogant as to demand that their personal or religious views can be or should be imposed on any other person.

To have the government involve itself in dictating how anyone else's reproductive and deeply private business can be conducted is abhorrent. Worse yet, it is females alone who are targeted. This is astoundingly demeaning and discriminatory. Additionally, the proponents of this gross overreach are commonly those who claim to be in favor of less governmental oversight. This appalling behavior is in complete opposition to the principles on which this country was founded.

— Earlene Smith,

San Gabriel A woman should be the sole person to make the decision about her reproductive rights, not lawmakers and not the general population. She should not have to provide a reason for wanting an abortion.

Those who experience incest or another type of rape may prefer to not give birth to a relative or random rapist's child. They should not be shamed for it. She should not be harrassed by strangers who demonstrate against the right to take care of herself, whether raped or not. At the end of the day the lawmakers and others probably don't give a second thought about the pregnant woman's angst.

I think that lawmakers and demonstrators should agree to adopt every one of these unplanned children. Safe surrender or adoption are very good alternatives. Infertile women would love to have a child in their life.

— Debra Gramcko, Lomita

Bodies and choices

My body, my choice is true, but in the womb of a pregnant woman cells of a new body are being formed with its own unique genetic code. Laws give women the right to abortion that disposes of this human embryo. And our prideful leaders tout the fact that California is a safe haven for all women seeking an abortion.

— Marta Kirkwood.

Long Beach