Coverage overlooks legality of clinic
The Daily Herald did not bother to mention in its coverage of the protests at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora that this clinic is legal. Women do not have to have their husband's permission to obtain contraception, the law ended in 1968. This clinic will serve women's health; abortion is only one-tenth of one percent of its business.
Also, you did not bother to remind people of "back alley abortion", which is what we used to have before 1973, when young women used gearshift knobs, coat hangers, metal pipes and other items. Unless you had money, then you could buy your way. It was in the daily papers if you're old enough to remember. But abortion was still done and in the news daily.
These so-called pro-lifers are only pro-life when it is in my womb or a Petri dish. Once it comes out they are pro-war, pro-death penalty and pro-mayhem.
In a free country we have the right to obtain any legal procedure available to us, period. We have the right to be protected from religion and religious zealots. There are harassment laws on the books to protect us; they carry fines and jail time. I know if I were to be harassed, I would prosecute to the full extent of that law.
If lowering abortion rates were the goal, then they would back contraception and comprehensive sex education, but they do not. Abortion is elective. If you do not believe in it, do not have one, but let the people do what is right for their lives and bodies, period. They will make peace with their God, not yours. They will live their lives, not yours, and then they will not tell you how to live yours!
This is a free country, so there should be no problem. Abortion is legal in this state. If you want to try and change that, then go to Springfield and let's duke it out all nice and legal. But until that law changes we have rights; and there are people whom will go to bat to save them.
This is not a one-sided issue, but the Daily Herald news coverage is. Why not report on how things were before 1973? Why not talk about why we made abortion legal, and how it has reduced a pile of female problems?
These are our bodies and we will do with them as we wish, whether others like it or not, period.
Fran Quinn
Medinah