Dear Editor,

There was a peculiar item in the papers claiming that the Supreme Court of Mexico’s abortion decision extends access to millions of women.

Pictures of women in jubilant celebratory spirit were captured. According to the papers, the court thought the decision that criminalised abortion was unconstitutional. Related news items showed thousands of Latin American women also matched up in arms for the rollback of the ban on abortion.

The Mexican court apparently took the position that abortion is entirely a woman’s issue. But is it? The definition of abortion itself removes any kind of disconnected undertaking in the process. It’s similar to the right of invasion that a country claims it has or is granted to enter another — a kind of “legal” trespassing.

For if a woman doesn’t feel she has such a right, it can be nothing less than a crime. Justifying the right of such invasion has been an ongoing dispute for many years; therefore, to impatiently overrule the settlement of the abortion controversy to grant its access is to show partiality and prejudice in favour of abortion rights.

Also, it’s impossible for abortion to be essentially a woman’s issue when as much women may be against it as those who support it — without even including the men who shared as much, if even externally, in the creative process but gets tossed out with the unborn.

Homer Sylvester

New York

h2sylvester@gmail.com