Mailbag: Male bias colors position on women’s rights

I simply must respond to the Brian Moerning’s letter in Mailbag (“Letter on Roe vs. Wade discounts millions of lives,” Sept. 6) When anyone speaks of “tens of millions of babies killed,” I always wonder what would have become of them. If born to welfare mothers, would they have become welfare recipients themselves, and produced twenties of millions of welfare recipients?

Can you wrap your mind around those numbers, Mr. Moerning? And by the way, abortion is rarely about “inconvenience.” It is about inability to raise a child in a world where it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to raise and educate a child.

Also, consider that tens of millions of people are not looking to adopt tens of millions of babies. You are a man, Mr. Moerning. You do not get it. Women do not choose abortion willy nilly, and it is insulting to women — and an unconscionable rejection of their rights to make decisions regarding their own circumstances — to make such a suggestion.

Liz Newman

Corona del Mar

*Listen to someone other than Trump

Like he has before, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has attacked another interviewer. This time it is Orange County’s Hugh Hewitt.

The Donald, who mocked Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly after the first presidential debate last month, and then blasted CNN’s Anderson Cooper after their recent sit down, now is calling Hewitt “a third-rate radio announcer.” That’s because Trump didn’t like what he perceived as Hewitt’s “gotcha” questions about U.S. foreign relations. Hewitt, denies setting up the candidate.

Trump’s views on immigration, relations with China, the proposed agreement with Iran and boosting our economy are well known. So much so, I suggest that Hewitt, who will be a co-moderator of the next presidential debates at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Sept. 16, not even bother to ask The Donald anything.

That’s right, not one question. Ditto for the other moderator, CNN’s Jake Tapper.

What’s the point? Why give Trump another platform to rehash his positions? It’s time Republican primary voters get to hear the other 16 candidates in the race. With the frontrunner standing by silently, they’ll get that chance. Talk about great TV. I’d pay to watch that happen.

Denny Freidenrich

Laguna Beach

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