Editor,
I was appalled to read the column titled "Abortion a modern-day injustice" in Monday's Daily Lobo not only for its staunch hypocrisy but its clever misuse of "the facts." Comparing the injustices of slavery and racism to that of abortion and the reproductive rights of women is about as naive and ludicrous as one might consider arguing.
Questioning the legality of abortions brings up a number of moral and religious issues that will never be solved in a society as mosaic as the one we live in today. Knowing that this argument will never find a definitive agreement between sides makes it intractable. Legal abortions protect a woman from several injustices that anti-abortion supporters neglect, like incest and rape. Legal abortion does not force a woman to have an abortion; it merely gives her the choice.
To criminalize abortion removes a fundamental human right, inviting the government into a place it simply does not belong. If to "render to a human being what he or she deserves" comes at the expense of denying those same rights to another, than aren't we cooperating in quite the cyclical dilemma?
Calling legalized abortion "the greatest injustice of our time" is to deny the occurrence of so many civil rights injustices currently inflicted upon our freedoms as Americans and human beings. The banning of same-sex marriages, employment discrimination, ideological litmus tests and the weak definition and enforcement of hate crimes are only a few of the horrific injustices plaguing the civil rights of our time.
Jillian Downer
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