Letter: Abortion ban is an attack on women’s rights

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 | 7:25 a.m.

If politicians in South Dakota truly cared about reducing the number of abortions, they would work with Planned Parenthood to increase access to contraception and medically accurate sex education.

This ban on abortion attacks the rights of women and families to make private, personal decisions about whether and when to have children.

Legislators have no right to tell the American people what they can and cannot do with their bodies. Instead of trying to ban abortion, we should be educating women about birth control and making it more readily accessible. We should be funding research that finds a better form of birth control.

The government shouldn't be able to force us into life-altering situations involuntarily. It is the woman who carries the fetus. The woman who goes through the life-endangering child birth, and it is the woman who will ultimately raise it.

Why should the government be able to force women into having children?

No matter what your personal beliefs, you need to see that this is not what is best for the people of this country.

This country stands for freedom and liberty for all and that includes what we do with our bodies. Banning abortion infringes on those rights.

Ama Trussell, Las Vegas