It’s religion used to harm women

■ Twenty years of the USA’S occupation of Afghanistan was partly justified on the grounds they were there to “liberate” women from being oppressed by religious extremists. Yet the US Supreme Court has just overturned the 50-year-old ruling in the Roe v Wade case which will deny millions of American women access to safe and legal abortions.

The US is denying freedom of choice to women in the USA who have had their human rights denied to them by a corrupt, backward state putrid with religious fanatics which sees them as walking incubators with no agency over their own bodies. This ruling must be fought. There must be no return to the back streets.

Sasha Simic, North London

■ How in America can they claim to be pro life when they sell automatic weapons which can be used to slaughter innocent children in schools or on the street?

How can they claim to be pro life when they end abortions for women and could condemn a child to a life of poverty, or of being hated or resented by its mother because she was raped? America, or I should say the Republican Party, is now so morally bankrupt it has set women back to the dark ages of being barefoot and pregnant. Mary Pester

Saltash, Cornwall

■ Why do some powerful men seem to think they are superior to women? Why did women in Britain have to fight for the right to vote? Why

in some countries is it only boys who receive an education?

Why in some places are women expected to walk behind men?

Why in some countries do girls have to suffer genital mutilation and why can they be married

off to men old enough to be their dads?

And how dare men in America say women cannot have an abortion even if they have been raped.

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■ The religious right in America, through the politically biased Supreme Court, has managed to overturn the guarantee of women’s automatic right to an abortion.

Some states have already implemented the new law.

This is the same Supreme Court that voted down legislation in New York restricting gun-carrying rights earlier this month.

Instead of protecting the rights of unborn babies, I suggest the courts focus on protecting children who should

have the right

to attend school without the fear of being shot and killed.

Louise Jones, Bristol

■ I find it shocking and terrifying that religious zealots in the US Supreme Court have overruled 50 years of legal abortions in the USA. Women everywhere should be prepared to fight for their rights as there are nefarious forces at work in all countries who want to take us back to the dark ages.

R Byrne, South East London

■ Boris Johnson said the overturning of the Roe v Wade decision in the US is a “big step backwards” for women’s rights.

But isn’t it hypocritical to point fingers elsewhere while the Tories are ripping up our own human rights laws to make their own?

Ian Mcavoy, Middlesbrough

■ My heart goes out to American rape victims, especially if those women and girls are refused abortions as a result of the Supreme Court ruling. I am totally in support of a woman’s right to choose.

Jan Hencher-serafin

Studley, Warks