To the Editor:
Re “With Roe Gone, a Protected Various for Determined Moms” (information article, Aug. 7), about using drop bins for undesirable infants:
I don’t assume I’ve learn an article that extra clearly epitomizes how dystopian this nation is changing into.
Can pro-life proponents be so intent on stopping a lack of “life” by abortion that they’re blind to the injury induced to a girl who has been compelled to hold an undesirable being pregnant to have her then drop her child right into a receptacle much like a trash chute?
Throughout being pregnant, even an undesirable one, most girls develop an attachment to and emotions for the fetus rising inside her. To half with that child is unbearably painful to most girls.
This drop field idea is merciless, traumatizing and soul-destroying and would merely exacerbate the sentiments of guilt, sorrow and loss these ladies expertise. I perceive that it’s a safer different to simply dumping the new child, however only a few ladies do this, and to see it as an answer that’s preferable to abortion is heartless and impractical.
I hope this text galvanizes those that haven’t but joined the combat to regain ladies’s rights to awaken and accomplish that.
J. Mundy-Rosner
Gig Harbor, Wash.
To the Editor:
I used to be dropped into the foster care system on the age of 1. I began at an orphanage and was then handed from foster care house to foster care house. I used to be no Little Orphan Annie singing concerning the sunshine. I skilled nice trauma. However I used to be one of many fortunate ones; I graduated from highschool.
Nevertheless roughly 50 p.c of kids within the system don’t graduate. Many of those younger folks find yourself homeless. The foster system runs at a price of $9 billion per yr. Add to that the price of supporting unaccompanied homeless youth (that features children from the foster care), which runs at an annual price of as much as $50,000 per youngster, and the burden to taxpayers is big.
Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett: Our foster care system is a really costly American tragedy. Imagining that child drop bins could be the reply for girls who’re unable or unwilling to boost a baby is naïve at greatest and can do nothing to enhance the situation of those deserted youngsters. It should solely add extra youngsters into an already damaged system.
S. Smith
Boise, Idaho
To the Editor:
Protected haven drop bins — a contemporary, humane invention? Assume once more. Way back to the twelfth century convents and church buildings put in closed turntable buildings often known as “foundling wheels.” Considered obligatory to avoid wasting the lives of kids whose mother and father for causes of stigma or poverty may expose them to the weather or neglect to feed them, these units had been phased out as Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century legislation reform decriminalized bastardy, fornication, adultery and abortion. The whole lot outdated is new once more.
Mindy Jane Roseman
New Haven, Conn.
The author is director of the Gruber Program for International Justice and Ladies’s Rights at Yale Legislation College.
To the Editor:
The protected haven motion is but extra proof of anti-abortionists’ complete disregard for the well-being of girls. How remoted a girl should really feel (and be) to resort to such determined measures, and the answer right here is to isolate her together with her secret, and to offer no help. The assertion that “when a girl is given choices, she is going to select what’s greatest for her” with regard to those instances is laughable.
Ronnie Halperin
Easton, Md.
To the Editor:
I write from Pennsylvania, the place our conservative legislators combat tooth and nail to eliminate drop bins for voting, charging that they aren’t protected and safe. Now the identical people need us to increase drop bins for precise infants? Forgive my confusion, but when it’s safe sufficient for infants it ought to be safe sufficient for ballots.
Shari Jacobson
Lewisburg, Pa.
Banish ‘Retirement’
To the Editor:
Re “Retiring? It Doesn’t Appear to Be the Proper Phrase,” by Kurt Streeter (Sports activities of The Instances, entrance web page, Aug. 10):
It’s not simply Serena Williams’s followers who could query if “retirement” is the suitable phrase for what she is doing proper now. I’ve lengthy argued that we’d like a brand new phrase to switch this outdated label from an earlier time.
The phrase “retirement” appeared to work again when most individuals stopped work at about the identical (older) age and often withdrew from most actions to a lifetime of journeys to the Grand Canyon, gardening and hobbies.
Right this moment, folks dwell longer, change careers many occasions and, even once they cease working, usually proceed being lively in one other type of work or severe endeavor.
I keep in mind a colleague who got here to his division after retirement solely on Saturdays, when nobody else was round, to get his mail. He acquired uninterested in being bombarded by all of the “How is retirement?” questions from well-meaning colleagues on weekday visits.
One other pal of mine refuses to make use of the phrase in any respect. It’s, in any case, a fraught phrase, loaded with stereotypical, unrealistic expectations and a contact of ageism.
Having now left the college myself, I too wrestle with what phrase to make use of, and principally find yourself utilizing “retired” for lack of an alternative choice. However I want I had a greater phrase. It’s time to retire the phrase “retirement.”
Rebecca S. Fahrlander
Bellevue, Neb.
The author is a lately retired adjunct professor of psychology and sociology who beforehand labored in company administration.
Don’t Blame Personal Fairness
To the Editor:
Re “Personal Fairness Doesn’t Need You to Learn This,” by Farhad Manjoo (column, nytimes.com, Aug. 4):
Based mostly on my expertise as C.E.O. of a number of non-public equity-owned telecommunications corporations for the previous 21 years, I disagree strongly with this portrayal of personal fairness.
For instance, opposite to what Mr. Manjoo suggests, with non-public fairness backing we took a poorly run firm and by putting in skilled administration and prudently utilizing debt meaningfully elevated employment, didn’t lay off a single worker together with through the Nice Recession, discovered methods to cut back our enterprise prospects’ payments throughout that recession, and grew to offer essential and life-sustaining communications companies to a rising set of underserved communities.
There are various research that spotlight related outcomes, and lots of examples of non-private-equity-owned corporations that took on an excessive amount of debt and/or had been mismanaged and failed. Blaming non-public fairness for upheaval within the retail sector is like blaming the inventory marketplace for the demise of the horse and buggy business: It was going to occur no matter the capital supply. Personal fairness is way from a universally damaging power.
Michael Gottdenker
Miami
Common Public Service
To the Editor:
As our nation expands the variety of its commitments around the globe, from Ukraine and most of Europe to Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, it’s previous time to ask all younger Individuals to commit two years to public service, both within the navy or in our public well being businesses.
It isn’t an excessive amount of to ask that Individuals between 18 and 25 participate in coaching and repair in order that in occasions of disaster we will name on a bigger variety of folks to employees the nation’s protection, whether or not in opposition to navy adversaries or within the combat in opposition to pandemics.
We should always start these preparations upfront in order that we’re ready to fulfill the challenges forward.
John C. Merson
Siasconset, Mass.
Supply: NY Times