Letters: The Supreme Court lost ‘innocence’ before abortion case leak – The Columbus Dispatch

Trump far too high a price to pay

I respond to the May 6 column “I’m glad Trump’s legacy could be the end of Roe v. Wade” by Patrick T. Brown.

Brown stated that, “Trump’s antics will have been a high price to pay to secure the end of the Roe regime. But it will have been worth it.”

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Has it really been worth it to have a president who has inflamed political polarization, incited violence against another branch of government, and much more?

You’re willing to trade the political and cultural health of our country for the overturning of a court case that will not stop the thing you say you want to stop, which is abortion.

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The opinion as it is currently written has it up to each state to decide.

As long as people need abortions, there will be abortions. Outlawing it will only cause more suffering.

Justifying the cultural and political damage that’s been done to overturn Roe v. Wade isn’t “pro-life.” It’s pro-violence.

Kathryn Maynard, Columbus

Make rapists support children born from assault

If the Supreme Court rules that a raped woman or a woman who is a victim of incest must birth the perpetrators’ children then a second law (of responsibility) must also be enacted.

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The rapist and incest perpetrators must be required to have a portion of their income automatically withheld for 18 years and given to the mother or agency responsible for the child’s upbringing, hence, law of responsibility.

Curtis J. Moody, Columbus

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Supreme Court’s ‘innocence’ damaged before Roe leak

When I read the May 4 column, “Leak on abortion case reeks of political calculation” by Jonathan Turley, I had to laugh. 

Turley is so indignant at the leak of the Roe vs. Wade draft that he calls it a “clearly a political calculated act.” Of course, it was.

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However, when Turley claims that “there is a loss of innocence” for the Supreme Court, he apparently forgets that for many, including myself, the Supreme Court’s “appearance of innocence” was compromised when Sen. Mitch McConnell blocked the hearings for Merrick Garland, then proceeded to confirm Neil Gorsuch and then, even more egregiously, he speed-confirmed Amy Coney Barrett while ignoring the reasons he gave to block Garland’s nomination.

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That, in the minds of many, ensured that the court would become a tool to deprive 20% of the population (women of reproductive age) freedom over their own body. This should not be forgotten by those who, during the current COVID-19 outbreak, claimed that forced vaccination, or mandated masking interfered with the freedom over their bodies.

While this loss of freedom affects directly only a fifth of the population, in reality, it affects all of us.

The defense of the Constitution and the freedom it promises all of us is our (“we, the people”) job.

Abramo Ottolenghi, Columbus