To the editor: I appreciated Aaron Tang’s op-ed article on whether or not a federal ban on abortion can be constitutional, and I used to be particularly grateful he put a girl’s proper to decide on within the context of liberty and never only a proper to abortion.
Tang factors out that in final 12 months’s Dobbs vs. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group ruling, the conservative majority “asserted that the ‘most essential historic reality’ that negated a 14th Modification proper to abortion is that many states banned abortion all through being pregnant when that modification was ratified in 1868.”
After all, one other essential historic reality related to the time of the adoption of the 14th Modification was that girls couldn’t vote and had been utterly disenfranchised from the political course of.
And that factors to the extra deeply rooted “historical past and custom” of humanity’s patriarchy and misogyny and the seemingly unending tendency to lean towards authoritarianism.
John Eaglesham, Lengthy Seashore
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To the editor: There are much more medication authorized by the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration aside from mifepristone that must be thought of for removing from the market, as they’ll trigger habit, overdose and even loss of life.
Mifepristone will not be a type of medication. Mifepristone doesn’t trigger habit or overdose. It’s not behavior forming. It doesn’t contribute to the overdose disaster on this nation.
The one disaster set off by mifepristone is how simply one federal choose and probably the U.S. Supreme Court docket can hand down a misguided determination that ignores medical analysis and science. Overturning the drug’s approval is simply one other step towards the demise of our democracy.
Sheryl Kinne, Van Nuys
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To the editor: I admire Tang’s optimism that the federal proper to an abortion is protected from the present conservative majority on the Supreme Court docket as a result of a constant and logical software of their reasoning from the prior rulings would put abortion rights based mostly on the fifth Modification “on agency footing.”
Nevertheless, the one factor constant about this court docket is its willingness to be illogical to attain partisan good points.
We’ve each motive to imagine this court docket would defy its personal prior reasoning if that achieves longstanding conservative targets equivalent to a nationwide ban on abortion.
Greg Seyranian, Redondo Seashore
