Opinion | Fighting the Latest Efforts to Outlaw Abortion

To the Editor:

Re “Tablets Are New Goal in 50-12 months Abortion Battle” (entrance web page, April 6):

The sport plan of the anti-abortion motion is falling into place. First, impose strict restrictions on the surgical process (assume Texas and Oklahoma). Subsequent, let the Supreme Courtroom jettison Roe v. Wade. And now, we learn that abortion drugs are the brand new battle line, as quite a few states have adopted or are contemplating restrictions and penalties for capsule takers and capsule suppliers.

I’m satisfied that, after the surgical procedure and the drugs are gone, the following goal can be contraception.

Abortion opponents, decided to impose their spiritual views upon the nation at massive, won’t relaxation till all American girls can expertise the fun of residing within the thirteenth century.

William Dunham
Bryn Mawr, Pa.

To the Editor:

It’s time for a modern-day Underground Railroad to acquire self-medicated abortions. It’s time to broadly promote the provision of those drugs, and clarify their security, effectiveness and price (less expensive than a medical abortion). You report that in 2020, 54 p.c of abortions have been with these drugs.

Inform girls learn how to acquire these drugs from Europe, Canada and Mexico. Makes an attempt to ban drugs by way of the mail can be futile. We want an underground motion to counter state efforts to cease abortions.

Steve Gold
Philadelphia

To the Editor:

Re “Close to-Whole Ban on Abortion in Oklahoma” (information article, April 6):

The near-total ban on abortion was authorised by a male-dominated legislature. Oklahoma has among the many lowest percentages of feminine legislators within the nation.

These males don’t appear to get that it takes two folks to make a child. Whereas this regulation is supposed to regulate the conduct of ladies, I do know of no regulation that exerts any management over the conduct of the lads who’re fathering these youngsters.

Martha Meyer
Chicago

To the Editor:

Within the spring of 2005, whereas we have been residing in Tulsa, Okla., my spouse turned pregnant. Nevertheless, our pleasure turned to concern after which sorrow because the fetal heartbeat slowed and ultimately stopped. My spouse had miscarried.

After consulting with our obstetrician, my spouse determined to have a dilation and curettage process. We each hoped that by surgically extracting the fetal tissue somewhat than ready for it to go by itself, she would heal quicker bodily and psychologically.

A couple of weeks later, I acquired a letter from our insurance coverage firm, informing me that the process was not lined as a result of it didn’t pay for abortions. My spouse didn’t have an abortion, and he or she didn’t willingly terminate her being pregnant. After many letters and cellphone calls, I sorted out the scenario with our insurance coverage service.

Nevertheless, beneath the invoice handed by Oklahoma lawmakers, that easy insurance coverage coding error or misunderstanding may have led to the arrest of my spouse’s doctor. I think that many harmless folks, offering acceptable well being care to the ladies of Oklahoma, will face authorized penalties because of this laws.

James Monk
Cleveland

How Save Baseball: Right here Are a Few Pitches

To the Editor:

Re “Save Baseball by Nationalizing It,” by Matthew Walther (Opinion visitor essay, Sunday Evaluation, April 10):

I grew up taking part in Little League Baseball and, later, N.C.A.A. softball. If my youngsters don’t play baseball, it gained’t be as a result of the sport is gradual or uncool. It’ll be as a result of youth sports activities have change into exorbitantly costly, and because of this socioeconomically monolithic, shutting out a technology of enthusiasm and expertise.

After gear, uniforms, journey charges and lodges, youth baseball can price households hundreds of {dollars} per youngster, and that’s in the event that they reside close to a baseball subject — unlikely in a dense metropolis — or have jobs that enable them to drive their youngsters to observe. Why undergo the rigmarole when youngsters can play soccer within the park?

It is smart, then, that Main League Baseball’s fan base is overwhelmingly older and whiter whilst America turns into youthful and extra various.

Baseball doesn’t have a relevance drawback. It has an fairness drawback. To outlive because the American pastime, baseball wants youth leagues which might be financially, geographically and socially accessible to American youngsters, {and professional} rosters that higher signify the nation.

And — talking as a woman who used to strike out the boys — involving extra girls and ladies wouldn’t damage.

Maddie Ulanow
Cambridge, Mass.

To the Editor:

Baseball’s future was sealed when, to maximise short-term revenues, it began broadcasting the World Collection at evening, too late for a lot of younger followers to observe. When you’ll be able to’t watch the World Collection, it turns into arduous to change into a die-hard fan.

Moderately than nationalize, why not return the World Collection to daytime? It has a greater probability of saving the sport.

Chris Barnum
Wilmington, Del.

Intercourse, Consent and Manners

To the Editor:

Re “Straight Individuals Want Higher Guidelines for Intercourse,” by Christine Emba (Opinion visitor essay, Sunday Evaluation, April 10):

One regarding side of sexual encounters raised by Ms. Emba is the usage of “choking, say, or different porn-inspired violence.”

As a psychotherapist and a {couples} counselor, I’m seeing increasingly younger heterosexual {couples} the place the usage of choking and different acts which might be violent or degrading to girls has precipitated a major rift within the relationship.

One suggestion I’ve for younger males is to ask a query thrice to get a real reply. Maybe by asking thrice we create that “pause” urged by Epictetus. It’d sound like: “Is that this OK? Is it actually OK with you? Are you certain you need to do that?”

As a society we have to educate males how precise intercourse with an precise lady would possibly differ from the hard-core porn they’ve been uncovered to, and we have to educate males about what it means to deliver respect, true consent and pleasure into the bed room in a means {that a} lady would possibly need.

Jennifer Wofford
Brookline, Mass.

To the Editor:

The entire species wants higher mores for social intercourse. Perhaps we should always mainstream manners. Courtesy dignifies our personal and others’ worth.

Deborah Griesbach
Watertown, Conn.

Scale back Drug Firm Earnings on Covid Vaccines

To the Editor:

Re “America Is Operating Out of Cash to Battle Covid,” by Vivek H. Murthy and David A. Kessler (Opinion visitor essay, nytimes.com, March 29):

The U.S. surgeon normal and the chief science officer for the U.S. Covid-19 Response Staff write that the federal authorities is working out of cash to offer People with Covid-19 vaccines, booster photographs and different provides to handle current and future dangers from variants of the coronavirus. They write, “It will be a grave mistake to imagine Covid-19 not requires our motion and funding.”

As professors of well being coverage, we strongly agree that the dangers are nonetheless substantial and prone to enhance with a future variant. However our analysis, revealed within the Journal of the Royal Society of Drugs, reveals that the U.S. is paying Pfizer, Moderna and different main firms greater than 15 instances the businesses’ complete internet prices per dose, after subtracting the billions taxpayers already paid them for growing and manufacturing them. Greater than 95 p.c of the $23 to $25 a dose the federal government now pays is pure revenue for executives and shareholders.

If the federal government paid internet prices plus a 20 p.c revenue, it might have loads of cash to fund its Covid-19 program and would have the ability to significantly enhance world fairness entry.

Donald W. Gentle
Joel R. Lexchin
Dr. Gentle is a professor on the Rowan College Faculty of Osteopathic Drugs. Dr. Lexchin is an emergency doctor and professor emeritus at York College.