Louisiana’s New Abortion Law
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Your editorial refers to the Louisiana legislature’s efforts to turn back the tide of legalized killing (abortion) as a “giant step backward in the area of basic rights.”
In the previous century, the Supreme Court declared that blacks were not persons entitled to the protection of the law. I wonder if your staff would have considered efforts to reverse that decision as an unconstitutional “giant step backward in the area of basic (property) rights?”
SCOTT MYERS
Malibu
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