Letter to the editor

    Dear Editor,

This letter is in response to a viewpoint titled Abortion truly a woman’s private choice by Jessica Cruz in the Jan. 24 edition of The Collegian.

    While I respect Cruz’s opinion, she has lost sight of the true argument against Roe v. Wade: it is simply unconstitutional.

    The Constitution of the United States gives the federal government very few powers in regards to law-making. It spells out exactly what the federal government can and cannot do.

    Nowhere in that document does it read that the federal government may make laws regarding abortion. In fact, it says the opposite.

    According to the Constitution’s 10th amendment, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”

    By this passage, the issue of whether abortion is legal or illegal should be left for the states themselves to decide—the federal government should have no say in the matter. It should be left to the people who reside in a state whether abortion will be allowed in the boundaries of the state.

    And because we do not require passports for interstate travel, girls who require an abortion and reside in states in which abortion is illegal can drive to another state to have the procedure performed.

    Judicial activism in the name of freedom or choice is spitting in the face of the document that provides that freedom. Roe v. Wade should be repealed and the decision left to the state governments.

    Sean Dickerson