Women’s rights in danger with high court pick

Dear Editor,

After the announcement of Amy C. Barrett (nomination to the Supreme Court), one has to ask, which century are we going back to?

As the proposed jurist by her own pledge must consult her husband for her decisions; shouldn’t the judiciary committee interview him when they seek to confirm her?

In the past in America, women had no power over their finances, bodies or educations. Husbands could send them to insane asylums should they wish to assert their own desires. Rape was ok within the bounds of marriage.

These are the chains women released themselves from by winning the vote 100 years ago. The choice to be second-class citizens now rests in our hands. Having a choice is a stake. “The Handmaid’s Tale” will not be fiction but reality. Speak or be silenced.

Freedom of religion was one of the the guiding philosophies of our founders. We were settled by many different faiths. Being forced to follow only one theological path is not American.

At this crucial moment we must investigate this nominee, and reject this nominee. The exclusion of half the country’s citizens by virtue of their sex is even more egregious than the speed that they have taken to make their selection. They dance on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s grave and bury American women in Medievalinspired slavery once again. We have the power.

Do not disenfranchise your rights and negate the work of the suffragettes and feminists who won your current freedoms.

Demitri Chletcos

Hurley, N.Y.