The recent editorial “In Our View: U.S. must focus on being pro-child, not pro-life” (The Columbian, Dec. 17) doesn’t make sense to me.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 legalized abortion. Nearly 50 years of making optional the parental and social duty to care for children before birth has undermined the same duty to care for children after birth.
The Supreme Court provided a legal/constitutional cover for the cultural revolution of the 1960s which divorced sex from marriage and children and allowed the father of the newly conceived child to tell the mother it was “her problem, you take care of it.”
Girls and women were expected to take powerful drugs and allow dangerous devices into their bodies in order to be sexually available for males. Thus the legal right became the social duty. Such pressure on our young women and men to conform to this social expectation has created a mental health crisis … even before all the social media came into play.
