Kendra Vincent’s Monday letter is absolutely right: Women’s rights are under attack. Yet the danger is far greater than she acknowledges. What our state legislature threatens tomorrow unfair laws against infanticide limit now.
Infanticide involves a woman’s basic right to control her own time and the direction of her life. No restrictions on these rights are reasonable.
It’s a right connected to all other things in their lives. Raising children is physically and mentally dangerous, hard work that involves risks men rarely help to face, and women should be able to decide whether or not they want to keep doing it.
Unruly toddlers and rebellious teenagers encumber a woman’s control over her life far more than pregnancy, yet bigoted men dare require her to raise what the whim of nature thrust upon her. Why should a woman’s right to terminate her progeny cease after birth? She brought it into the world, and she must be able to take it out as soon as it hinders her life.
All women should have the right to infanticide at any time for any reason, regardless of laws, ethics or any other hurdles. Women have the right to decide when and if they will raise children, and that includes changing their minds after they started.
Editor's note: This letter refers to this guest column.
