Intrusion into lives

I would like to congratulate and express my thanks to Lee Jones of Little Rock for her letter in the July 12 Democrat-Gazette. She said so much of what needs to be said by all the true feminists of this nation.

The decision to have an abortion should be between the woman who is carrying the fetus and her doctor. The Republican Party is supposed to be for less government intrusion into our private lives, but where abortion is concerned they seem to push that aside. They say they are “pro-life,” but that seems to be only when an abortion is being considered. If you are going to be “pro-life,” then you would be against the death penalty and definitely against all wars.

Now in the July 15 newspaper there is a reply to Lee Jones’ letter by Doug Morris which states “no one on the right has any desire to control women’s bodies.” How is telling a woman that she must have a baby once she is pregnant, whether she wants to or not, not controlling her body? Then he has the audacity to tell us, “Your body ends at the placenta.”

Of course, this was written by a man, typical patriarchy, him trying to tell us where our body ends. I’m sure men would appreciate being told that their body ends at their scrotum.

No one can know the reason or reasons a woman wants an abortion but her, her doctor and sometimes the man who got her pregnant. Besides those involved, it is no one’s business. LINDA BARNES

Prairie Grove