Reaction to the leak of Roe v. Wade decision

“Report: Court poised to overturn Roe” (May 3): Although I disagree with God-fearing individuals who fervently oppose abortion, I can intellectually understand their motivation — to save the babies.

What I can’t understand is their hypocritical position to abandon those children once birthed. These same people oppose many social programs supporting poor children, such as adequate child care, food security and foster care. Where did their stated need to ensure the sanctity of life — especially in Texas, having the highest rate of executions in the U.S. — disappear to?

And don’t get me started on the newer justices who clearly stated in confirmation hearings that Roe v. Wade is settled law. They are card-carrying members of the mass of hypocrites. Diana Francis

Dehesa

If Roe v. Wade is overturned as expected, the only winners will be the backalley abortion providers. How many women will be risking their lives with these people?

Mike Reardon Fallbrook

If abortion again becomes a crime, it will continue but at great risk and expense. Some women and girls will die. All girls who reach sexual maturity and women not yet of menopause age should practice birth control 100 percent of the time, since pregnancy from incest and rape can happen at any time. Since sex with men is obviously the cause of pregnancy, some women may refuse to marry or have sex with men.

Don’t have an abortion if you don’t think it is moral. Allow the rest of the women and their partners to make their own choices based on their own health, finances, religious beliefs and personal life circumstances. Making abortion illegal makes unwanted pregnancy involuntary servitude.

Those who oppose abortion rarely offer to pay for raising those children from unplanned, unwanted pregnancies. Instead those mothers are called welfare queens or promiscuous. Butt out of women’s private lives.

Karen Seal Stewart

Oceanside