Letter: Truly a Huge Loss
To the Editor:
Margaret Drye’s Jan. 20 commentary about the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, “Let Us Confront What We’ve Lost,” (Jan. 20), noted that there have been 55 million abortions in the U.S. “It represents a profound loss in human capital ... all the wealth that humans bring to the world through their inventiveness, industriousness and creativity,” Drye wrote. “ ... Because of (these abortions), we have lost millions of irreplaceable, unique human beings whose absence has made us incalculably poorer.”
That statistic implies that, were it not for Roe v. Wade, right now there would be an additional 110,600 people in Vermont and an additional 232,500 people in New Hampshire. This is truly a huge loss. But it gets worse. The real evil is the “right of privacy” upon which Roe v. Wade was based. The privacy right was “found” (“conjured” is more like it) in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut, which established the “right” of people to subvert the laws of nature by preventing conception. Were it not for the abomination of Griswold, we could, no doubt, be enjoying the bounty of several million more people in Vermont and New Hampshire.
And so it all continues. With each passing year, what we have lost becomes ever greater.
Larry Shaper
Thetford Center
