Woman’s abortion choice is no one else’s business

The fight for abortion rights is not about one's individual stances on abortion or adoption – it's about every person's right to make private decisions about one's own health (physical, mental and emotional).

A choice about one's body, one's family, one's health, is – by our own constitutional right to privacy – nobody's business but our own.

All Americans have rights. But which right comes first?

● The right to remain silent? Men do, women do.

● The right to privacy between a defendant and lawyer? Men do, women do.

● The right to privacy between a priest and confessor? Men do, women do.

● The right to privacy between a patient and a doctor? Men do, women do ... except a pregnant woman with an abortion doctor? That's anybody's or everybody's business? Or even, so far, just Texans' business?

Again, a choice about one's body, health, and family is nobody's business but one's own and one's doctor. Male or female.

Our constitutional right to privacy is everybody's right, first and foremost.

Donna Calderone, Gahanna