To the editor:

The recent letter attacking the Supreme Court and declaring that the full citizenship of women is being undermined crosses the lines of reality. The author argues that full citizenship means that women must have an undeterred right to kill the unborn. The unborn is a helpless but very much alive human being dependent upon the mother during the gestation and after the birth. We were created with the design of the woman being the one that carries and gives birth to a baby. That is a very responsible assignment as has been the man’s responsibility since the beginning of time to provide for the family.

The man’s responsibility has diminished as has the woman’s responsibility over the last 50 years but for society to work, both must accept their responsibility. The deterioration of the man’s responsibility has led to children having no fathers, resulting in poverty and crime.

While Planned Parenthood, an abortion organization cites figures about Catholics being very pro-abortion, the Catholic League cites figures that are just the opposite. Not surprising. One is in business to kill the unborn and the other is trying to save lives. Statistics can be manipulated in many ways.

Killing the unborn is not for the common good. It may be good for business for Planned Parenthood and it may give the left a political argument that suits their special interest strategy but common means for all. Many who want the right to abort the baby even see it as a necessary evil, not a device for the common good.

As far as the Supreme Court, Justice Blackman wrote the opinion to make abortion legal and at the time we did not realize how soon after conception, the unborn has a heartbeat and a personality forming. Had we been as aware of fetus science then as we are today, I doubt that abortion would have been made legal.

As far as Justices being biased and having to proclaim that their role is non-political, this is nothing new. There are many decisions made that are not interpreted as political although Justices bring to the Supreme Court a mindset that complements their political views. I don’t know of a Justice appointed by a Democratic president who isn’t pro-abortion. Probably the only thing that has kept abortion popular is that the Democrats have made it a special interest voting bloc.

Laws such as those passed in Texas will save tens of thousands of lives and that is commonly good.

John Benedict

Cape Coral