OPINION:
This abortion nonsense has gone on long enough (“Abortion-rights ballot measures seek to mow down limits in red and blue states alike,” web, Oct. 10).
If the right to privacy means anything, abortion is none of any government’s business — neither federal, state or local. It’s a private matter, particular to individuals and families, in which no legislature has any legitimate interest.
Nonetheless, the taking of a human life does raise a public concern. Our criminal courts have always dealt with it, not needing laws that make manslaughter illegal. Whether an abortion was a felony or a reasonable medical procedure should be decided by a jury after the fact, not by politicians beforehand.
As a political issue, abortion could be settled once and for all by a constitutional amendment forbidding any government involvement in such private matters as family planning.
Progressives, however, would fight this idea tooth and nail. They care about one thing only: making their popularly elected representatives our superiors, not our subordinates as they were intended to be. Alongside that, the well-being of expectant mothers means nothing to them.
Do you doubt this? Then try proposing such an amendment, which goes further than Roe v. Wade did. Our elite betters will scream bloody murder.
JOHN S. MASON JR.
Irvington, Virginia
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