Opinion

Abortion vs. health care — from women’s P.O.V.

The Issue: Whether abortions and the legal issues surrounding them are really part of “women’s health.”

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It would be most helpful if Jonah Goldberg could separate his appraisal of women’s health care from his political agenda (“Who Really Dictates Women’s Health?” PostOpinion, July 1).

Perhaps Goldberg should imagine being a woman and consider that basic decisions about his body are being made by men who cannot become pregnant or be forced to carry an unwanted fertilized egg to full term, even if they don’t have the means to care for it, or never had the intention of becoming pregnant.

Let’s not even ask him to imagine if the sex had been forced.

The issue of reproductive rights, including the right to determine the future state of your own body, is not a dialogue between left and right, or liberal and conservative. It is between those who wish to determine their own futures, as opposed to those who would determine such for them.

If you could conceive and bear children, why would you want those who cannot to make decisions for you?

Howard Zimmerman

Manhattan

The always excellent and profound Goldberg has outdone himself.

Isn’t it also chilling irony that when it comes to the Kermit Gosnells of America, the liberal statists and their media lapdogs care nothing about government regulation of their slaughterhouses?

This frightening apathy exposes them as cold-hearted hypocrites who care more about the victory of their ideology than true human suffering.

Herb Eichen

Bayside

Goldberg’s op-ed is manipulative claptrap.

Leave women alone.

If abortions were outlawed again, women would still obtain them from illegal abortionists. That is the bottom line.

Law enforcement should not be deployed to round up women having abortions and those performing them.

Let’s have similar zeal to go after and profile predators around this country.

Let’s also do something about our shameful prison system.

Jennifer Zahn

Saranac Lake