On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court declared a Constitutional right in Roe v. Wade for women to have abortion rights. Fifty years has now passed, with the 2022 declaration from the court that the 1973 decision was not done in Constitutional manner. Why is a Constitutional right in 1973, however, a legal issue in 2022?

Who has declared a 50-year-old law was done not in a favorable passage, that women lose their rights at the behest of men? Do we sit here and wonder what next law will be declared illegal? Not only women, but men of other colors or persuasions will be under the scope of the Supreme Court. A law of however many years can be deemed not a law at the whim of new leaders based on what fits their perception of current times.

In changing laws, there must be validity of laws being passed and actual validity for changing prior laws decades later, not moving backwards in the effect of taking women's or others' rights from them.

Kath Allen

Peterborough

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