Lucy Wolski: Pregnant women should have full rights in eyes of US Supreme Court

To The Daily Sun,

I have a hypothetical potential fetus in my body, and therefore I am not a full person in the eyes of the U.S. Supreme Court.

A full person should have the choice between terminating a pregnancy or raising a child. I’ve had a pro-choice stance for as long as I can remember, before and after having children of my own. When the Roe v. Wade draft opinion leaked, I posted a quote from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on my Instagram story. “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity ... When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”

Immediately I got messages from pro-life friends. My former neighbor, mother of six children, weighed in on my weak and silly argument. A gun-loving high-school classmate that I haven’t spoken to in 20 years accused me of being emotional instead of logical.

My colleague, my husband, and my sister all told me to block them.

Instead, I asked them questions, and I listened. I told them where I disagreed with them, and that I still love and respect them. Did it work? Of course it didn’t work.

Nothing can be said to change their hearts and minds.

Therefore we need a law that codifies the right to have an abortion in the state of New Hampshire. Without it, women here are less than a full person.

Lucy Wolski

Northfield