To the editor:

The recent Texas abortion law should be ruled unconstitutional solely on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment, that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…”

Time after time the basis of anti-abortion zealots is their religious belief that life is sacred (definition of sacred; connected to God {or the Gods} or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration.) and that so abortion is against their God’s law.

I believe life is sacred, but why is an anti-abortion law allowed to stand against the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? The First Amendment not only protects people who wish to believe and worship in the way they so choose, but also is meant to protect any person choosing not to believe or worship in anyway they choose.

I personally don’t believe in abortion but even more so do I believe in protecting other’s rights to choose as they wish. How do these religious zealots measure their self-serving support of such laws with the hypocrisy of judgement? James 4:12; “There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?”

The politicizing of the U.S. Supreme Court in recent decades is a slippery slope that will eventually devalue our Constitution and the rights it was meant to protect. Roe v Wade is nothing more than an affirmation of the First Amendment. I laugh and cry when I hear far right conservatives say they’re constitutionalists and yet support the destruction of the same sacred document with their support of such laws as in Texas and Mississippi.

D. Kenney

Cape Coral