On March 29, a letter writer expressed compassion for those parents who had no ability to provide for their children, and for the children who were unwanted and uncared for (“Signs are too easy,” PDN, March 29).
She supported family planning as a source of relief for young people whose circumstances make childrearing too difficult.
Two letter writers on April 8 and 19 gave rebuttals.
One letter writer spoke of “life as a blessing” and another writer countered that women who abort their children were merely “facing financial burden and inconvenience.”
Both writers ignored the point the March 29 letter writer made.
There is an enormous amount of suffering (almost 20 years) for both unready parents and their unwanted children, and they now constitute a permanent underclass throughout America.
Religious adoption agencies have not solved our rising homeless population.
Of children, apparently, this misery is of no importance to the anti-choice camp.
The cycle of pain crosses generations, from parent to child to grandchildren.
Some of this torment could be avoided if reproductive choice were provided consistently to young people across the nation.
In Texas, the religious right prevailed from 2010 to 2014 and most women’s clinics were closed.
The death rate from maternity complications doubled, killing 600 Texas women, according to media reports.
The Supreme Court subsequently rejected the Texas laws specifically as “not supportive of women’s health.”
Apparently, these lives don’t matter to the right.
Judith Parker,
Sequim