Woman’s perspective

There are so many angles to look at in the disastrous decision of the Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade, but let’s start from a woman’s perspective.

To women everywhere, whether you are for or against abortion, the Republican Party, via its conservative Supreme Court, has slapped you in the face. It basically has said you are not smart enough to make your own decision concerning birth control and childbirth, so we will force you to do what we say. My question to women happy about this decision: Do you realize this is taking away a freedom of other women? Do you not like other women? I believe the Republican Party is getting ready to take away more rights and freedoms, and the next law may affect you directly. My advice for people against abortion is to take a biology class and learn a fetus is not a baby. You cannot have a C-section at six weeks and have a viable baby. If carried to term, a fetus has a chance (a chance) to become a healthy baby.

Maybe our Republican Legislature can pass a law creating ”pregnancy prisons” like the old debtors prisons; that way we can lock women up for nine months so that they cannot go out of state to get an abortion or receive abortion pills through the mail.

Let’s be honest, Republican men couldn’t care less about abortion because they know they will never get pregnant and will not have the expense or obligation of raising a child. The reason they play along is to keep their faithful “Christian” base in line and voting for their party.

I have a suggestion for Arkansas that should slow down the abortion debate. We list each person against abortion and put their names individually in a hopper (like a lottery drawing), and when one of these babies is born that the mother can’t afford or doesn’t want, we draw out a name and the winner gets to adopt and raise that child until 18. Watch the ”do-gooders” run and hide. My only hope with this system is that Jason Rapert, Leslie Rutledge, or Jerry Cox would be one of the first names drawn.

JEFF PRIDE Little Rock