Roe ruling will one day be overturned

After 35 years in the struggle against abortion, I thought I had heard it all. From the young mother to be who chose abortion for her child, giving the reason, "I was concerned how I would look in my bikini this summer." Or the aborted child found in the pit of a outdoor privy (the child survived).

Now two letters to the Herald complain that the Herald printed letters comparing abortion to the evil of dog fighting.

Both letters hang their hats on the fact that abortion is "legal." That the Supreme Court through Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton did give mothers the right to, in my use of one writer's own words describing dog fighting, "misuse" their unborn child by killing them in a most cruel manner.

I would point out to the writers that in hundreds of cases the Supreme Court has reversed itself in getting things right. Slavery, a woman's right to vote, and the prohibition of liquor are but three examples. Three cases of what was perceived as being "legal," rethought and overturned, as surely will be the case with Roe and Doe. And, yes, men can weigh in on this issue. Abraham Lincoln did not have to be black to see the injustice of slavery. One thing we can agree on, is one writer's questioning "where have all our standards gone?"

A good starting point would be the cheapening of the right that all other rights descend from, the right to life guaranteed in our constitution and by the creator of us all, almighty God.

James Finnegan

Barrington