Opinion | An American ‘Dystopia,’ After Roe

To the Editor:

“Indignant” can be a gross understatement, and “scared” doesn’t even start to clarify the emotions of betrayal that I, and tens of millions of others, are experiencing after the Supreme Court docket ruling reversing Roe. The highest judges and elected officers of our nation have decided that girls now not deserve the correct to bodily autonomy.

In kindergarten I recited the Pledge of Allegiance each morning, proudly declaring my nation as one in every of “liberty and justice for all.” In third grade I carried out patriotic songs within the college live performance. In seventh grade I realized in regards to the Civil Warfare and that being American means standing up for what is correct. However this all feels so false to me now.

America is now not “the land of the free,” no less than not for me, not for individuals with a uterus. Medical choices ought to stay between a person and their physician, and abortion is not any exception. However now, the federal government has intervened, and the correct of pregnant ladies to get vital medical care is gone in lots of states. That is going to value the lives of so many harmless individuals.

The place is the humanity in forcing births after which permitting those self same youngsters to be slaughtered in school rooms by assault rifles? I’m combating for a similar rights that my grandparents fought for 50 years in the past, and I’ll proceed to combat in order that my youngsters and grandchildren, after I make the selection to have them, gained’t must.

Madison Sherman
Framingham, Mass.
The author can be a junior at Worcester State College.

To the Editor:

So now in lots of states when a lady is raped and turns into pregnant she can be compelled to provide start, pay the medical bills and see her earnings diminished whereas she misses work. And after that trauma, she must make a heart-rending choice both to surrender the kid or pay the prices of elevating the undesirable baby.

Welcome to the 51st state: Dystopia.

John Myre
Chesterfield, Mo.

To the Editor:

As a pastor, I knew that a part of my calling was pastoral care: sitting at bedsides, strolling with the grieving, praying about divorces, failed careers and children on medicine. What I didn’t anticipate was the various ladies who would confess that they’d been sexually abused by a brother, father or one other male family member. All these ladies have been traumatized, and a few had devastating psychological harm.

Incestuous abuse is usually repeated, so the probabilities of turning into pregnant are excessive. I want the Supreme Court docket justices and legislators in states that now prohibit abortion even in circumstances of incestuous rape might hear the tales I heard: members of the family who denied the apparent or blamed the sufferer; a lifelong legacy of feeling anxious, unseen, mistrustful and depressed.

To drive an already brutalized lady or lady to bear the kid of her abuser is sadistic punishment. The Bible doesn’t prohibit abortion; it definitely doesn’t countenance the sadistic cruelty that overturning Roe v. Wade will permit.

Joanne Whitt
Corte Madera, Calif.

To the Editor:

Any ladies or well being care suppliers arrested for violating an abortion ban can be entitled to a jury trial. As a result of many individuals in conservative states nonetheless favor abortion rights, prosecutors would possibly discover it tough to acquire a unanimous responsible verdict. As occurred in Nineteenth-century circumstances of defendants accused of violating the Fugitive Slave Act and legal guidelines in opposition to labor strikes, jurors in abortion trials might resolve to vote not responsible as a protest in opposition to a regulation they deem unjust.

Steven E. Barkan
Holden, Maine
The author, professor emeritus of sociology on the College of Maine, is the creator of “Protesters on Trial: Prison Justice within the Southern Civil Rights and Vietnam Antiwar Actions.”

To the Editor:

Do the six justices of the Supreme Court docket majority know what number of deaths of younger ladies they are going to be chargeable for, now that they overturned Roe v. Wade?

As a medical scholar who labored in Argentina when abortion was unlawful, I can inform them in regards to the horrid tragedies and deaths that I witnessed within the E.R. of the Hospital Durand. Their motion is gloomy and incomprehensible, their lack of empathy abhorrent.

David S. Cantor
Los Angeles
The author is a retired gastroenterologist.

To the Editor:

Maybe American ladies ought to reread “Lysistrata.”

Invoice Martinak
Edison, N.J.

New York’s Excessive Taxes Have Prompted an Exodus

To the Editor:

Re “An Exodus of New York’s Rich Has Left Lasting Prices”(information article, June 28):

Whereas New York Metropolis undoubtedly skilled out-migration points over the past two years, the truth is that this has been a statewide drawback for years. In accordance with U.S. Census Bureau knowledge, 1.4 million New Yorkers fled to different states between 2010 and 2020.

This troubling pattern has real-world penalties, together with fewer congressional seats, a shrinking work drive and a bigger tax burden on remaining residents.

The truth is, an April report from the Tax Basis discovered that New York’s state-local efficient tax charge was 15.9 % — the very best within the nation. Whereas sky-high taxes are usually not the one problem driving New Yorkers away, they’re definitely a driving drive. Take into account the truth that the populations of low-tax states together with Texas and Florida grew at greater than thrice the speed of New York’s over the past decade.

Till state leaders get critical about enacting broad-based tax aid and embracing a pro-growth mind-set, the Empire State exodus — and all the issues that come together with it — will proceed.

Justin Wilcox
Brighton, N.Y.
The author is the manager director of Upstate United, a enterprise advocacy group in upstate New York.